VoIP worries the public sector
NetworkWorld is also worried about VoIP, but its coverage of the InfoSecurity conference focuses on all sorts of threats to critical IP infrastructure. One expert professes concern that technology is moving faster than laws–it seems that New York State has no anti-hacking statute (or a “we’ve-been-hacked” disclosure law) until one goes into effect at the end of this year. And emergency managers are looking everywhere but VoIP for disaster communications. They say putting up a wireless IP infrastructure in a disaster zone is just harder and more complicated than traditional radios or mobile phones–even if access to computer networks would be a good thing.
For more information about VoIP and government:
- read this article from Network World