Re: VOIP over Wi-Fi subject to eavesdropping?

"Walter Roberson" <roberson@ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca> wrote in message
news:dcvm4o$q41$1@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca...
> 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.
> --
I should thing most people have by now heard that they should not allow
waiters to take their card away. Even so, I'm sure it still happens.

Brian
Received on Thu Sep 29 20:00:43 2005