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

[Kelvin Chua]

how about the cross-talks?
without even exerting any effort to listen-in you get to hear the
lastest gossip the neighbors are discussing over their "twisted
pairs"...

On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 02:57, Steven Critchfield wrote:
> 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.