What about arp spoofing the local gateway and forwarding all of your neighbors out through your connection and sniffing all their VoIP traffic (and listening to it in your leisure. Screw Tivo, I want to know how my neighbors illicit affair is progressing!)
Last I checked there was no inherent encryption facility for VoIP. Can you IMAGINE the privacy issues? You can certainly tunnel VoIP over IPSEC or what have you but now you just introduced more latency and capacity issues (on both sides, customer equipment and vendor).
How about someone DoS's your phone right before they break into your house?
Im not saying there ARENT privacy and security issues with copper, but I would argue that pulling off remob of a given OE set takes a hell of alot more skill then it would to do the same thing to a VoIP node.
What sort of new issues does this bring to protecting our communications infrastructure? What happens when some kids DDoS the VoIP carriers customer access points? You need a backhoe to do equivalent damage today.
My $1.84
-wp!
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What about arp spoofing the local gateway and forwarding all of your neighbors out through your connection and sniffing all their VoIP traffic (and listening to it in your leisure. Screw Tivo, I want to know how my neighbors illicit affair is progressing!) Last I checked there was no inherent encryption facility for VoIP. Can you IMAGINE the privacy issues? You can certainly tunnel VoIP over IPSEC or what have you but now you just introduced more latency and capacity issues (on both sides, customer equipment and vendor). How about someone DoS's your phone right before they break into your house? Im not saying there ARENT privacy and security issues with copper, but I would argue that pulling off remob of a given OE set takes a hell of alot more skill then it would to do the same thing to a VoIP node. What sort of new issues does this bring to protecting our communications infrastructure? What happens when some kids DDoS the VoIP carriers customer access points? You need a backhoe to do equivalent damage today. My $1.84 -wp!