NY Times considers VoIP insecure
We were waiting for a big player to come along and blow the whistle on VoIP security sooner or later, and the NY Times indeed has. But, as usual, their analysis comes off much more like an alarmist analyst than a realistic security prognosis. The premise is that with VoIP, now voice networks will experience the same security issues as data networks. Well, yes and no—in theory, VoIP packets could be intercepted and pieced together to recreate phone conversations; but in reality, almost all the big players (i.e. any of the ones you'd actually use), from Skype to Cisco to Vonage to Mitel incorporate encryption to prevent this. We're not saying encryption is the end-all-be-all eavesdropper countermeasure (there's still the ever pesky man in the middle attack, and so on), but c'mon, let's get real here. As far as these things go, we're not in all that bad of shape as of yet. We feel much safer sending our voice data encrypted over the internet than through a PATRIOT-ridden analog line, anymore.
[Via TechDirt]
