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Security of public network?



On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 07:47:35AM -0400, Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> Of the various "Landline" phone methods (though there are likely others):
> 
> - fiber (i.e. FIOS)
> - POTS (copper)
> - VOIP (vonage)
> 
> Do they have equal weight when it comes to security of residential
> communication, and the customer can boil it down to price?

Yes. None of them offer any security at all, so you need to run
your own firewall and crypto on all of them.

-dsr-


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