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U.S. Government Issues Report on VoIP Security Holes
ranson writes "PC World is reporting on VoIP technology's threat of being manipulated by hackers, through call interception and DoS attacks on users' internet connections. While these threats are nothing new, the article cites an interesting government report on the topic, as well as its author, who believes a VoIP user's best protection is security by obscurity."
Chances of slashdoters reading that 99 page government report are about the same as VoIP being secure.
"As VoIP is rolled out en masse, we're going to see an increased number of subscribers and also an increased number of attackers," says David Endler, chairman of the VoIP Security Alliance
it's easy to see he's an expert. i mean, who else could come up with such an idea? the very premise of it is far-fetched to the point of hillarity. to think that as a product becomes more widely used it is targeted by a larger population...craziness.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
-Oscar Wilde
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paintball
Since the government can't crack/control it, they release FUD to discourage the public from using the system.
In this world only the paranoid survive.
...Because when I'm lost in the backwoods of the third world and 911 doesn't seem to work, my next move is always to check slashdot for a relevant article.
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isn't the security. Phone calls haven't been secure since shortly after the first one was made. No, the problem with VOIP is working with the fucking idiot phone vendors who do not understand what they are trying to do. I've gotten several calls from local phone guys who don't understand networking in the least and insist that they've assigned proper IP's to the phones at two seperate locations but they won't talk so it is my network problem. They then inform the customer that the problem is with the network and walk off. The phone at location #1 had an IP of 192.168.39.3 and the phone at location #2 192.168.40.5. No VPN between them. They were trying to route the traffic out over the internet connection.
These dipshits sell the customer on thsese solutions and then when it doesn't work (routing probs or dropouts from no QOS) they call us in to sell the customer a couple thousand dollars worth of services and hardware to sell the problem. I don't mind the business but working with a customer who is on the brink of becoming an axe murderer isn't pleasant.