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Originally Posted by Morden
VOIP is unencrypted or has poor encrpytion so can be hacked, unlike landlines which can only be accessed by the security services.
Not safe for bank transactions or other similar where you need privacy. Only landlines can provider that.
For that reason I dont use em.
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Even if it did have poor encryption (which is wholey dependant on the solution) it's only vulnerable to the same sort of attacks that landlines are, that being physically sniffing data off the line.
I'd argue it's actually easier to gain access to a landline than to a voip phone, as all it requires is a couple of strands of cable and a telephone handset, sniffing and decoding voip data from a physical line is slightly more complicated than that. Go look at how many people in the phone subforum have had rogue charges on their accounts from people gaining access to the street cabinet. Doing that is trivial, and it's just as trivial to snoop on your phone line from there as well.
That's not to mention that you can secure a voip call a lot easier than you can a landline one, SRTP is widely supported now and provides the level of protection that a landline can only dream of.