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Title: How safe are landlines?
Post by: thedoc on 04/09/2012 18:20:15
How safe are landlines?
Asked by Katherine, Hemel Hempstead


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Title: How safe are landlines?
Post by: thedoc on 04/09/2012 18:20:15
We answered this question on the show...



 Steven -   They're moderately safe in that they're not really connected to the internet, but increasingly, landlines are moving over to Voice Over IP (VOIP) systems and then they are essentially internet computers, and they have all the same vulnerabilities that internet computers have.