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2005-10-22 Science & Technology

VoIP Blacklash from same countries trying to steal Internet control

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Posted by 3dc 2005-10-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 These piss ant countries don't amount to shit.

Posted by Captain America, esq 2005-10-22 00:41|| 2005-10-22 00:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Sounds like a server based packet sniffer and firewall.

BFD. One server in a network segment could route packets out over a different port before translating them to Skype's port.

Or in the alternative, an independant service could just start up a ssh tunnel, encrypted from start to finish. How are you going to break and sniff encrypted packets?

That would put a pretty little crimp in Arabia's and China's internet gamesmanship.

Posted by badanov 2005-10-22 00:56|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2005-10-22 00:56|| Front Page Top

#3 I think it works by detecting a jittery connection.

Skype is already E2E encrypted.

Just let Skype have a filler packet option.

BTW are they all phone monopolies?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2005-10-22 10:48|| 2005-10-22 10:48|| Front Page Top

#4 As an exceptionally happy Vonage customer, with unlimited calls throughout the US, Canada, and Puerto Rico for less than half what Sprint charged for a local land line, I figure they're both protecting their existing Luddite phone system profitability as well as hoping to throttle anything they can't monitor. In the case of Egypt and the Soddies, they're worried about the little people getting ideas, methinks...

Posted by .com 2005-10-22 10:56|| 2005-10-22 10:56|| Front Page Top

#5 Skype is already E2E encrypted.

From what I have read so far the packet header isn't encrypted, and that is what Naurus uses to block them. An SSH or an SSL packet are both encrpyted from the start of the request to the end. The only thing a packet sniiffer can gain is an encrypted packet, if it can break the encryption for the link, and then try to break the encrypton to determine if the ssh packet is in fact carrying a VOIP data. By the time it could break the encryption, the phone call will likely be over.

Posted by badanov 2005-10-22 12:53|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2005-10-22 12:53|| Front Page Top

#6 Hey, what's next? Stamps for email?

Posted by Rafael 2005-10-22 14:07|| 2005-10-22 14:07|| Front Page Top

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