VoIP traffic is mostly unencrypted making sniffing it out and recording it very trivial. Try and find a VoIP provider that uses encryption. The only problem with encrypting voip traffic is that call quality suffers.
To be fair, it is not really the laptop that is the vector for the virus but its operating system. If the bean counters would open up their eyes to alternative, more secure Operating Systems i.e. the BSDs or Linux, perhaps mobile computing would be more secure. Linux and the BSDs have built-in drive encryption capabilities so no further expense need be incurred to purchasing that kind of software. Remember, exploits to Windows are being found almost daily . Even if you have a Windows box very locked down, guarranteed that there exists an exploit to gain administrative privileges to install malware remotely.
Theoretically, if we had candidates that represented us instead of the interests of corporations and special interest groups, our right to vote would be worth a great deal.
This statement is pretty much dead on. The seeds for this problem were sewn early on as evidenced in the presidential elections. The populace vote never counted for very much because we have an Electoral College. Our forefathers showed an incredible lack of foresight when establishing this system. The Electoral College was founded on the principle of preventing voters from electing an incompetent, poor, or tyrannical leader due to potential ignorance or guile. In a nutshell, the Electoral College was established to "save people from themselves." Since this body makes the determination, a candidate can loose the popular vote, yet still be elected a la George W. Bush. This sums up just why our vote does not count and why many see showing up at the polls as an effort in futility, the quality of the candidates notwithstanding.
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VoIP traffic is mostly unencrypted making sniffing it out and recording it very trivial. Try and find a VoIP provider that uses encryption. The only problem with encrypting voip traffic is that call quality suffers.
To be fair, it is not really the laptop that is the vector for the virus but its operating system. If the bean counters would open up their eyes to alternative, more secure Operating Systems i.e. the BSDs or Linux, perhaps mobile computing would be more secure. Linux and the BSDs have built-in drive encryption capabilities so no further expense need be incurred to purchasing that kind of software. Remember, exploits to Windows are being found almost daily . Even if you have a Windows box very locked down, guarranteed that there exists an exploit to gain administrative privileges to install malware remotely.
This statement is pretty much dead on. The seeds for this problem were sewn early on as evidenced in the presidential elections. The populace vote never counted for very much because we have an Electoral College. Our forefathers showed an incredible lack of foresight when establishing this system. The Electoral College was founded on the principle of preventing voters from electing an incompetent, poor, or tyrannical leader due to potential ignorance or guile. In a nutshell, the Electoral College was established to "save people from themselves." Since this body makes the determination, a candidate can loose the popular vote, yet still be elected a la George W. Bush. This sums up just why our vote does not count and why many see showing up at the polls as an effort in futility, the quality of the candidates notwithstanding.