[FRIAM] VOIP Security

[Michael Orshan]

I use Skype all day for both national and international calls.  Plus, I do
many podcasts and use Skype for that.  While about 2 years ago the quality
for fair, I'd say the quality is great, better than a land line.  I always
get connected, hardly ever drop and with call forwarding it makes a great
mobile office.

I believe in one year I might have 3 or 4 unwanted calls from strangers and
I always qualify them.  Hey, no solicitors, I feel that is victory.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: friam-bounces at redfish.com [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf
Of James Steiner
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 8:08 AM
To: nickthompson at earthlink.net; The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee
Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] VOIP Security

I use skype because it is trivial to do conference calls with it. I
only connect to people that I have in my contacts list. I would never
accept a call from a stranger on skype--what would be the point? Also,
I arrange all my skype calls ahead of time through other
communications channels--so a call is never unexpected.

~~James


On Nov 23, 2007 2:02 PM, Nicholas Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net>
wrote:
>
>
> Does Le Monde think that ordinary mortals should use SKype.
>
> I gather one should not "return" phone  calls in skype for the same reason
> one should not click on links in spam messages.
>
> http://www.informaticasecurity.com/press/2007/VOIP_Security.html

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