The Telehealth.Net blog – aimed mostly at mental health professionals, it seems – has been running a campaign to draw attention to the fact that Skype and VOIP telecoms are less secure for teleconsultation purposes than most of us think they are. Selection of articles here.
Not a very compelling campaign is it?
Couldn’t find much supporting evidence at the link…
Skype evidence
So you left a comment on their latest article to ask for the evidence?
I thought the one Skype Security: What Happens If Someone Hacks into VoIP? raised the most pertinent issues.
Skype
Skype causes a very big headache to world wide security services as it forms a peer 2 peer network. Hence the US goverment offering a massive reward for anyone devolping a solution to intercept calls.
Now VOIP can be insecure if set up poorly.