Re: VOIP over Wi-Fi subject to eavesdropping?
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Re: VOIP over Wi-Fi subject to eavesdropping?

From: Walter Roberson <roberson@ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca>
Date: Fri Aug 05 2005 - 14:30:16 CEST

In article <42f312b3$0$28331$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be>,
Brian <freelance102@hotmail.com> wrote:
:> 10) There is no such thing as a secure telephone connection,
:> unless *you* provide the encryption at both ends.

:Which only goes to confirm that credit card purchases by telephone are
:foolhardy.

Are they more or less foolhardy than credit card purchases "by hand",
in which your card might be taken away (restaurant)
or double-swiped, or read through a "skimmer", or recorded
(e.g., for recurring payment purposes) and later abused.

-- 
   "No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by
   demanding empirical evidence."            -- Ann Landers
Received on Thu Sep 29 20:00:38 2005