[wellylug] Phone handset for SIP/Skype & POTS

[Jim Cheetham]

On 26/06/07, Arnim Littek <arnim at actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 26 June 2007 16:22, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> > I'm looking for a cordless telephone handset, that will connect to the
> > normal phone line (POTS) as well as to "something" for SIP and/or
> > Skype.
>
> Can't speak for many, but there are sysadmins who are already banishing
> Skype
> from their networks, as it is a non-trivial security risk.  All too easy
> to
> circumvent any protection for incoming files etc...


The operation of Skype on my (Large Evil Corp) corporate network is a breach
of IT usage policy. Not a dismissable offence on the first occasion :-)

In part this is because of the risk of becoming a supernode, but also
because governance is virtually impossible. Internal IM is provided by an
MSM service; external IM isn't banned, but using it to talk about business
to anyone is. It's not clear if that policy is technically policed; some
ports/targets are blocked, but things like Google talk on the GMail website
works fine.

Anyway, this is for home usage, not corporate :-)

-jim
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