Yes, I may have jumped the gun. I just found it both fascinating and scary.
One way it does relate is security. Articles like this help keep people on their toes. They were talking about this on the radio this morning and I can only hope that at least one business executive got the message that security is essential. Manufacturers and big corporations are always too slow to act. They need to start assuming the worse and working from there. Did you know your entire phonebook from your bluetooth cell phone could be copied without your consent? Not just that but much much more. A good article about bluetooth snarfing is http://trifinite.org/trifinite_stuff_bluebug.html We are starting to see more movement with the encryption and Asterisk. I assume that it will be quite a while before we see this in end user products tho. As of version 1.2.4 Asterisk includes IAX encryption support but it seems the SIP encryption bounty is still up for grabs. Incase you were wondering Ethereal is currently able to capture RTP streams and output to a sound file. http://wiki.ethereal.com/VoIP_calls http://wiki.ethereal.com/RTP http://wiki.ethereal.com/RTP_statistics http://wiki.ethereal.com/IAX2 Do I dare mention Canadian privacy laws vs the National Security Agency (NSA) and the USA Patriot Act? I think I just did. This could be a good separate topic, not just with our VoIP data but our other Internet data as well. I know with my Sympatico almost anything that I traceroute goes though routers on USA soil. Just food for thought and despite what you may think from this post I am not a very paranoid guy. Blaine
