Kent Borg wrote:
Rich Braun wrote:
...go to the obitalk site and enter the unit's serial number. Then
enter your gmail account credentials. Done.
But I get worried again.
...if you expect some third party to login to Google on your
behalf...
My understanding of the implementation in this
On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 18:16:34 -0700
Rich Braun ri...@pioneer.ci.net wrote:
Actually, Google is by far the best free public site in terms of
authentication technology. They provide 2-factor auth in a couple
different ways (RSA in a mobile app, plus a fairly cool text-back
method).
[...]
(A
On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 02:38:39 -0400
Tom Metro tmetro+...@gmail.com wrote:
Conceptually someone could still breach your Obitalk account and
potentially leverage the config access it has to your Obi to obtain the
GV credentials.
Using the cloud service for configuration management is optional.
Doug asked about:
a regular
phone can plug into it, a line for my technology skeptical wife).
Has anyone cut the phone cord by using this or similar devices?
Yes, I cut the Verizon cord during a recent move. By signing up for Google
Voice ahead of time, I got a phone number in my new area
On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 10:40:13 -0700
Rich Braun ri...@pioneer.ci.net wrote:
The Obi110 box is capable of a lot of things I've yet to figure out.
I just use it in its default settings. You plug it into your LAN switch,
plug a phone's RJ11 cord into it, go to the obitalk site and enter the
Actually, Google is by far the best free public site in terms of authentication
technology. They provide 2-factor auth in a couple different ways (RSA in a
mobile app, plus a fairly cool text-back method). So a big leak of hashed pws
from a Google back end wouldn't compromise your accounts as
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Tom Metro tmetro+...@gmail.com wrote:
It's also popular as one of the few devices that can let you use
traditional analog phones with Google free Google Voice service. (For
whatever reason Google chose to use XMPP (Jabber) as their VoIP
protocol, rather than
Tom wrote in a different thread:
They provide a link on their support page to a replicated interactive UI
for the product:
http://obihai.com/OBi110/index.html
A few of the video tutorials looked workable (Look dear, a regular
phone can plug into it, a line for my technology skeptical wife).
Doug wrote:
A few of the video tutorials looked workable (Look dear, a regular
phone can plug into it, a line for my technology skeptical wife).
Has anyone cut the phone cord by using this or similar devices?
I have a couple of OBi110's. One is lightly used and the other not
deployed yet. I
