- HOW TO AVERT THIRD PARTIES LISTENING TO YOUR PHONE CONVERSATIONS
You are certainly aware that third parties listen to phone conversations. Big Brothers of all the countries are now equipped to intercept and listen to phone conversations. Particularly since September 11. Everyone is suspected to be a potential plotter, a possible or probable terrorist.
However, we do know that terrorists do not use
phones to conceive , plan and execute misdeeds. Particularly now that they know they are under strict and constant surveillance and could be spotted if they use phone to make exchanges with fellow companions.
Nevertheless, Big Brothers are adamantly determined to spy on descent people, who are just doing business and not harming anyone. If you do not care fine. However, if you are a business man who care for his bottom line, you should take precaution measures to avert eavesdroppers.
Freedom of speech would be lost soon if we all keep quiet and do nothing to protect our constitutional right to speak freely.
Use CryptoPhone To Encrypt Your Landline Phone's Conversations
So, for your normal landline phone conversation, you can make it difficult for Big Brothers to stand in the middle listening, laughing and picking your business ideas. Just use the excellent software called CryptoPhone that would scramble the phone's conversation to the point that Big Brothers would need powerful (not yet available) hardware to be able to decipher it. CryptoPhone is a freeware that cost you nothing. Each party involved in the conversation had to install the software and the conversation transit from computers to modems and to the telephone both ways.
You can also use a voice scrambler but then you have to shed few bucks in the range of hundreds. Click here for more
You Are Shouting In The Public When You Use Your Cell Phone
As you know your mobile phone's conversations are easily monitored by scanners' enthusiasts - Police, Big Brothers or even competitors or simply by malicious people planning to attack you one way or another. Speaking on a mobile phone without the adequate protection is shouting in public. That could be annoying (for you particularly) if you are spelling out business secrets.
Protect Your Conversations over the Net with Zfone
Voice Over The Net - known as Voice Over Internet Protocol - VoIP - is becoming increasingly popular (see our previous delivery on the matter and scroll down to Freebie Section below.)
However, the problem is the same as with cell phones. Speaking over the net is shouting in the public even if one has the false impression to be safe in front of the computer. It is even more easier for Big Brothers to listen to a particular target. They need just to place the right listening device on your IP address or (with the agreement of your service provider) directly on your node. And that is. They are in your office or in your room with you, listening to everything you are saying to your correspondent without you noticing anything.
You can go on the offensive and secure your phone's exchanges over the net. Phil Zimmermann, the famous maker of Pretty Good Privacy - PGP the international acclaimed email and document encryption tool - is back with new brand software to encrypting phones conversations over the net. The software, Zfone, had just been released on May 21, 2006 for windows in beta form and should be used in conjunction with any standard smartphone such asSjPhone.
Who else than the master himself can explain to you Zfone's usage and capabilities to put eavesdroppers at bay. Login to Phil website to review Zfone specifications and download the client not to be fooled again by Big Brothers of the world.
As here previously exposed, the ultimate protection is to setup a Virtual Private Network (VPN) if you are dealing in a sensible business, scientific or Information Technology area, and need full confidentiality of exchange with your counterpart.
The problem is which VPN to trust? How to know if it is not precisely Big Brothers who had setup the VPN you chose to use? You can only be sure if you establish true peer-to-peer connection with your correspondent. However, how to know if the VPN client you are using does not have backdoor? If you design it yourself that's OK. Otherwise..
In previous delivery dated back to August 15, 2002, an Open Source reliable VPN called PRIVARIA had been exposed. Unfortunately, in the meantime the link to download had been removed by the maker of PRIVARIA. You can get it now here. It is not specifically designed for Windows Xp, however as it can work on Windows NT it should work also on XP. At least it is working with one of our XP machine.
Two security's measures are better than one. Even if you have setup a VPN, you can still use Zfone and other utilities above outlined to make your exchanges extra secured. However, if you really have the state against you, then you
are in for a nightmarish lifestyle. Just watch Will Smith staring inEnemy of The State
In a previous delivery Voice Over the Net - technically known as Voice Over Internet Protocol - VoIP - had been briefly exposed and a VoIP client (SjPhone) that makes it easy to configure several VOIP providers on the go had been introduced to you
Since said introduction a new provider enters the market with aggressive marketing proposing FREE access to some destinations' landlines phones and even to mobile phones.
The company name: VOIP BUSTER. Indeed, it is a true competition's buster, with a marketing based on aggressive pricing. Not only they allow "give away?" free calls to some landlines phones as above explained but rates are also so low to non-free destinations that several competitors would be feeling the heat! However,
When you
register to VOIP BUSTER, you could ask for a free Inbound phone line. Though that offer seemed limited for the time being it is also a blow to competitors, which normally request payment for such a facility.
VOIP BUSTER offers the possibility to configure a client such as SJphone with the username and password used to register with VoIP Buster and utilizing the following configuration' strings to initialize your account: STUN: stun.voipbuster.com; DOMAIN NAME: voipbuster.com; SIP PROXY: sip.voipbuster.com
Please note however that there is a catch to benefit from the free access to landlines for some destinations (France, Singapore, Panama. Etc.,) that is you have to make a deposit of EURO 10 (ten) to have 360 minutes free per week to phone to landlines and sometimes to mobile phones. That deposit you will use to phone (at very competitive rates) to destinations that are not free.
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