Greenflame
10th May 2005, 07:39 AM
With the Standards finally being set in 97-02 by IEEE, VOIP
is being implemented alot in Buisness and Homes.It saves
money, and offers ease of use through MS and *NIX OS's.
But as with every practical Technoligy Big Buisness is trying
to Capitalise off of it, and Criminals are Attacking it.The only
real Vulnerability's are the results of User Lazyness like not
configuring it properly, or just useing there connection wrong.
The only hold on the VOIP market Big Buisness has is the
fact they Have the Bandwidth and Disk Space for TerraByte
Databases(They probly sacrificed some of there old Data
Mining Tables..).
The uses for VOIP are overwelming to me personally! it can be
used on a VPN or WAN for FREE Telephone service, or it can
be used for Voice Confrencing like you see in some Messangers.
Any thing you can Connect to or Echo is capable of sending and
recieving Audio Format Encoded Packets.If someone had the
time they could use any of many VOIP API's,Modules,Librarys
for there exclusive Programming Language to write a SoftPhone
or even a PBX.Despite of what people are saying it isnt just
for Broadband Connections! I have succefully used a few Soft-
Phones on free Dial-Up connections which after overhead, and
line connection issues where anywhere from 14.8KBps to 32KBps.
The Security Holes have nothing to do with VOIP it's self, but
pour security which allows the Attacker to do things like ARP
Poisoning,Man In the Middle Attacks, and DNS Spoofing.These
Attacks are used to Grab Packets and Decode the Music Format
which is usally FM quality WAV or MP3 like you would use for
Streaming or Embedding.The Transfer of Phone Numbers to
IP's hasnt happened yet as far as I know.This is why there isnt
the functionality to communicate over wireless Cell Networks
or most directly connected DTMF or Tone Dialing Telephones.
I have been doing some coding on a Open source phone
called Shtoom (http://shtoom.sourceforge.net/).I hope to make and freely distribute My own
Soft Phone that allows VOIP to DTMF Phones and Modem/
Fax Protocols.The Protocol is still being discovered though.
is being implemented alot in Buisness and Homes.It saves
money, and offers ease of use through MS and *NIX OS's.
But as with every practical Technoligy Big Buisness is trying
to Capitalise off of it, and Criminals are Attacking it.The only
real Vulnerability's are the results of User Lazyness like not
configuring it properly, or just useing there connection wrong.
The only hold on the VOIP market Big Buisness has is the
fact they Have the Bandwidth and Disk Space for TerraByte
Databases(They probly sacrificed some of there old Data
Mining Tables..).
The uses for VOIP are overwelming to me personally! it can be
used on a VPN or WAN for FREE Telephone service, or it can
be used for Voice Confrencing like you see in some Messangers.
Any thing you can Connect to or Echo is capable of sending and
recieving Audio Format Encoded Packets.If someone had the
time they could use any of many VOIP API's,Modules,Librarys
for there exclusive Programming Language to write a SoftPhone
or even a PBX.Despite of what people are saying it isnt just
for Broadband Connections! I have succefully used a few Soft-
Phones on free Dial-Up connections which after overhead, and
line connection issues where anywhere from 14.8KBps to 32KBps.
The Security Holes have nothing to do with VOIP it's self, but
pour security which allows the Attacker to do things like ARP
Poisoning,Man In the Middle Attacks, and DNS Spoofing.These
Attacks are used to Grab Packets and Decode the Music Format
which is usally FM quality WAV or MP3 like you would use for
Streaming or Embedding.The Transfer of Phone Numbers to
IP's hasnt happened yet as far as I know.This is why there isnt
the functionality to communicate over wireless Cell Networks
or most directly connected DTMF or Tone Dialing Telephones.
I have been doing some coding on a Open source phone
called Shtoom (http://shtoom.sourceforge.net/).I hope to make and freely distribute My own
Soft Phone that allows VOIP to DTMF Phones and Modem/
Fax Protocols.The Protocol is still being discovered though.