[Freeswitch-users] send fax via google voice.

curriegrad2004 curriegrad2004 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 7 20:43:13 MSK 2011


And you forgot to mention that telco's might not have a well secured
system at all. Soft taps have been around for quite some time in the
POTS world... So anybody can tap on to the conversations effortlessly.

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Ken Rice <krice at freeswitch.org> wrote:
> Whats the old saying? Ignorance is bliss? Heh
>
> Just because and end user perceives it as being more secure doesn’t make it
> so... Even faxing over voip you just tcpdump out the rtp and process it thru
> and you can recover then entire exchange... Same thing with a laptop, a
> sound card, and a wav recorder with a cheap passive phone tap... Only
> difference with legacy PSTN vs VoIP is its easier to hack a box somewhere
> along the way and intercept the traffic vs finding the trunk line carrying
> the traffic, however, it doesn’t take long to figure out that there are tons
> of unsecure access points to the wire between your office and the CO...
> (even the fiber these days can be compromised relatively easily compared to
> what it was 10 years ago)
>
> My whole point here is I am not malicious when it comes to this sort of
> thing but I know what can be done and how cheap the technology to pull off
> these things really is. I smart but I am far from the smartest guy and if I
> can figure out how to do this stuff many people can figure it out...
>
> I’m still say that the only secure computer is one fired into the sun on the
> tip of a rocket with no comms back to earth.. Then that’s only secure until
> someone figures out how to retrieve it.
>
> K
>
>
>
> On 3/7/11 11:24 AM, "envelopes envelopes" <sunwood360 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From the perspective of end user,  it is pretty easier to hacker an end
> user' inbox globally.  However, you need physical presence to grab fax
> documents.
>
> Interesting to see the view from IT people is so different from
> non-technical people. After, any existence has its reason.
>
> On Mar 6, 2011 8:56 AM, "Ken Rice" <krice at freeswitch.org> wrote:
>
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