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VoIP Security

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the this-is-the-future-people dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Whitedust are running an interesting article on the security aspects of VoIP. From the article: "The fact that VoIP operates across standard networks makes it vulnerable to all manner of IP hacking - including man in the middle attacks,sniffing, session hijacking, etc." Considering it's recent growth, how secure is VoIP?" PCM2 sent us a wired bit about Phil Zimmerman of PGP working on a privacy system for Voice over IP calling

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  1. Paranoia by tod_miller · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hi Hun, I am gonna be a bit late tonight

    I thought you were going to give me a lift to Tinas?

    Thats tomorrow, have you been taking my pain killers again?

    No... erm... ok I'll see you later

    *click*

    Wait, we are being line-tapped

    Oh my god! Execute the Omega 13 Device!

    *end of world*

    Really - if you want security, talk in tongues, or use a third party audio scrambler, plus encrypt the session. (then unencrypted it will just sound like noise). Plus standon one foot while you talk, and occassionally look through the venetian blinds for snipers across the rooftops.

    --
    #hostfile 0.0.0.0 primidi.com 0.0.0.0 www.primidi.com 0.0.0.0 radio.weblogs.com
    1. Re:Paranoia by mwilliamson · · Score: 3, Funny
      -SNIP-
      and occassionally look through the venetian blinds for snipers across the rooftops.
      -SNIP-

      Dude, why not stick your head out the door for a few seconds too while your at it? If you take paranoia seriously, you seriously need to set up outdoor pinhole cameras, like I have. I love the espressions of frustration on the sniper's faces. Also, keep in mind your location can be determined by a tempest brainwave triangulation attack, so wear the proper protection. (you have been warned)

  2. Re:Gentoo?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    RTFM you GD n00b.

    -Debian support

  3. Re:The Dumbing-Down of America...part XXVII by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Wow, who knew Bush wrote for Whitedust under the pseudonym "Mark Anderson"? Pity he couldn't mask his spelling as well as his identity.

  4. Re:The Dumbing-Down of America...part XXVII by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Withal, goode sire, an he bee writing in 1337, this spele-checker of which you rite be but six longge centyries hence. (Yet it mattereth not, for onely the monkes can rede or rite, and each monke speleth differently from hymmself.)

  5. Re:The Dumbing-Down of America...part XXVII by Calyth · · Score: 2, Funny

    Perhaps he was thinking the article would be more secure by using illegibility through obfuscation...