[Asterisk-Dev] OMG THE SKY IS FALLING!! NOT!!!

[Steven Critchfield]

On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 13:29, Jennifer Archer wrote:
> I think land lines are just as easy to hack into as sip (and probally easier
> than sip) but... consider this... walk down the street, open the #$%^ CO BOX
> gain access to the F1 F2 F3 whatever bridge it onto a unused pair of
> wires...  and run a line to your house, what have you just done? hijacked
> someone elses line(s) ... and anyone who can put a battery in a remote
> control could easily hijack a land line.  SIP ... Who knows how to hijack a
> sip call? I dont... but... someone will figure it out, and someone will make
> it more secure when it becomes a widespread problem.

Sometimes the telco does this for you. While living with my mom, I had a
ISDN line. When I moved out it was decommissioned. A few years later, my
mom wanted a extra line for her internet access. As the drop was already
there, she just ordered the circuit. On the day it was to be turned up,
I wired up the internals for her. Shortly after it was wired up, the
line rang. I picked up the line and was surprised to be in a three way
call with a budy up the street and a friend who was calling him. Talk
about security, my friend had the line for more than a year and it was
also terminated at my mothers house more than a block away also. 
-- 
Steven Critchfield  <critch at basesys.com>