Ethereal

[Luke -Jr]

On Thursday 25 January 2007 22:56, Oren Beck wrote:
> Ok, last steps to examine- do we go for audio alone or is VOIP even
> thinkable?

VoIP shouldn't need much CPU power or RAM-- especially if using uncompressed 
formats like alaw or ulaw.

> As in if we have USB what does it take to run the Vonage dongle? 

USB Vonage dongle? Is this something new? Last I checked, they only allowed 
their own ATA, which doesn't go through a PC at all.

> An encrypted VOIP to keep script kiddie level hackers from overhearing where
> you hid that spare door key? Do consider that last one as a "full system
> resources hog" mode on lower end hardware. 

I haven't heard of any regular-use VoIP encryption, nor of any providers that 
support it. Even if they could, it can still be tapped when it hits the POTS.