Patrick O'Callaghan: > You're talking about the CPE (Customer Premises Equipment). The CPE is > not the phone system, which is choc-a-bloc with highly proprietary > systems, both hardware and software. Nobody cares unless it breaks down. > (Please don't take this as an argument against open source). And which part of a phone system would a user be wanting to run customised on their own premises? The phone, not the exchange. People run skype, and its ilk, to have an alternative phone in their hot little hands. Even then, the protocols involved in telephony aren't that well a guarded secret. >>> Is it free from bugging? >> Mostly impossible for the average person to listen to your calls. > I thought we were talking about government agencies here. I think that came up later in the thread. Let's face it, you can't stop the government snooping on you, if they really want to. Not unless you live in a sound proofed, and electrically isolated Faraday cage. If it proved hard to tap your phone, they'd simply bug the room. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines