PILMAN
join:2002-11-23
Fort Walton Beach, FL
| isn't it harder to tap?
Wouldn't it be a bit harder to tape VOIP to say a standard line? Sure I could see it being easier if they knew your provider and someone reported your number but lets say you were under investigation. How would FBI or whatsoever know your using say stanaphone or vonage. Would the fact your under investigation provide them to carry out wiretaps on a normal line (even though not in use) and intercept packets and check the headers to see they are going to a VOIP provider? Can officials actually decrypt those packets into voice or would they have to do it from the providers end? I figured those packets would be very hard to decrypt until they reached the terminating end like vonage or stanaphone. |
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diehardspeed
Premium
join:2003-05-14
Salt Lake City, UT
| How secure do you think a Vonage call is?
Do they use any security at all?
All they would need to do is capture packets on your VoIP port, run it through the voice codec and poof they can hear everything your saying.
What I am saying is what is the point! Any person who is talking on a hard wired line or VoIP phone line or unencrypted communication over the net for that matter should not be worried about people listening in on their calls because they do. They read your email, they will listen to your calls too!
Simple solution... Cryptic VoIP through a secure VPN tunnel. This is how the real bad guys are going to be able to use VoIP as much as they want and they will get away with it too because to be able to wiretap that.... it's gonna cost way too much money and require more cooperation than the "providers (ISP's and VoIP services)" would be able to give. Hell who needs a provider! You can do direct PC to PC calls without any "server/provider". Lets see them listen in on that!
Waste of taxpayers dollars is all it is! |
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