[Asterisk-Users] Re: OMG THE SKY IS FALLING!! NOT!!!

[Jason Stewart]

On 14/05/04 10:36 -0400, Joseph Finley wrote:
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> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of >>>brian k. west
> >Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 11:24 AM
> >To: asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com
> >Cc: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> >Subject: [Asterisk-Users] OMG THE SKY IS FALLING!! NOT!!!
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> >
> >http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1591131,00.asp
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> >bkw 
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> Funny how he references "buddy", "pal" told him....Shouldn't this type of
> security information come from a security person and not a typical OVERHYPED
> journalist?
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It's funny how most of these alarmist "security" articles are written
by clueless journalists and cite "Marketing Officers" as sources for
their information instead of real security people.

Use encryption or tunneling (if you don't mind a bit of latency) if
you're in need of extreme security. 

Anything on the Internet is as secure as you (the admin) make it.
Anything insecure is not the fault of the service itself, but the
fault of the "expert" in charge of making it secure. There was one
good source in the article, which was the MCI tech. He's not too
worried, since MCI encrypts all of their voip traffic.


Jason