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Vonage Is it possible to intercept a Vonage call?
Absolutely.
But it's easier
Is it possible to intercept a Vonage call?
Absolutely.
But it's easier to intercept the side of the call that is on the actual plain old telephone system (POTS). This includes your house wiring (if you are using it), cordless signal intercept (and unless that digital signal is encrypted, which is somewhat rare, it is still subject to interception and eavesdropping even if it is digital), the Vonage->POTS gateway in the US, any one of a number of POTS->POTS gateways between the US and Mexico, or the endpoint in Mexico.
Plain Old Telephone signal is carried across two wires at the endpoints. If you have access to those wires, "tapping" the line requires nothing more sophisticated or more expensive than a simple telephone and a pair of wire strippers. If you are using a non-encrypted cordless phone, forget it. All that takes is a modded scanner, which is not hard to get.
Internet packets are somewhat harder to intercept, and require access to somewhere that all or most of your call is passing through, like your home network, or the routers at your ISP or Vonage's. The equipment and technology is not that expensive, but it's harder to get a complete signal, and less likely you'll be certain of intercepting it unless you are at one of the endpoints, very near where the POTS wires are. And the POTS wires nearby are easier to exploit.
It's far, FAR more likely they intercepted the calls locally, off either POTS endpoint of the call (yours or the one in Mexico).
Read The Full Thread: Call Security
• What can I do/buy to increase the security of my Vonage voip calls? We recently
• Since everything is wired, the only weak spot that I can see would be any cordless
• Agreed. What was the nature of your scare?
• Well we had place a call to Mexico to a family member a week ago. My name was mention
• What kind of cordless telephone do you have? VERY unlikely its Vonage. How about
• Agreed again, but it hasn't yet been established that a cordless phone is involved.
• NSA wiretaps only work with Verizon though. :-D
• I'll take your word for it, and hope that you don't tell us how you know. :-D
• Ya know I saw a show on E! the other day that had the same story, except it was involving
• yes its a cordless phone. What does a cordless phone have to do with anything?
*edit*
Oh
NateHoy posted "Is it possible to intercept a Vonage call?
Absolutely.
But it's easier" on 03/21/2008 |
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