On 26/06/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Arnim Littek</b> <<a href="mailto:arnim@actrix.gen.nz">arnim@actrix.gen.nz</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Tuesday 26 June 2007 16:22, Jim Cheetham wrote:<br>> I'm looking for a cordless telephone handset, that will connect to the<br>> normal phone line (POTS) as well as to "something" for SIP and/or<br>
> Skype.<br><br>Can't speak for many, but there are sysadmins who are already banishing Skype<br>from their networks, as it is a non-trivial security risk. All too easy to<br>circumvent any protection for incoming files etc...
</blockquote><div><br>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 :-)<br><br>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.
<br><br>Anyway, this is for home usage, not corporate :-)<br><br>-jim<br></div></div><br>