[Asterisk-biz] VOIPSupply.com - New Product Announcements

Michael Giagnocavo mgg-digium at atrevido.net
Wed Aug 17 13:55:37 MST 2005


>> Well, I think most people would like to hide their banking and credit
>card
>> information. Leaving your network open to anyone wanting to plug in just
>> makes it that much easier... (Then again, its probably easier to just
>send
>> someone a Trojan renamed to "Coolpicsofu.exe".)
>
>Only problem is, the cordless technology that is being replaced has no
>security whatsoever.
>
>Therefore anything is better than nothing.

That's not the point. The point is that the user has to downgrade from WPA
to WEP, just to use their phone. So, perhaps no one cares about attacking
the phone, but because of the phone, the rest of the network is exposed.

-Michael





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