On 6/18/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jon Pounder</b> <<a href="mailto:JonP@inline.net">JonP@inline.net</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Quoting Dominik Zalewski <<a href="mailto:dzalewski@open-craft.com">dzalewski@open-craft.com</a>>:<br><br>wouldn't it be simpler just to run voip on some other port that is not<br>blocked like 80 or 110 etc ?<br>
<br>Then again if your network provider is doing things like that already<br>what guarantees do you have they are not going to block vpn or<br>whatever else you try ?<br><br>How can you do business in a country like that where you have
<br>absolutely no guarantees your business will function from one day to<br>the next ?</blockquote><div><br>Pop quiz: name me one country who has never changed the laws in a way which affect business.<br><br>Now, back to the technological side, there are ways to block SIP and IAX beyond just simple port blocking. And it's really easy to sniff traffic. So, if you're doing something that the government expressly forbids, I would think that a VPN would be a bare minimum for privacy/security.
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