>> And attract the attention of most of the world's hackers :-).
>> Imagine the ability to take out a whole country's telephone system
>> with a suitably cunning virus.
>>
> Here, you confuse technology and implementation.  Implementing a 
> VoIP
> telephone network doesn't mean that the IP network has to be 
> connected
> to the public internet as a whole, and I don't think there is much 
> reason to think that any particular IP network couldn't be made "as 
> secure as
> the current network supporting the telcos."  (telco networks get 
> hacked,
> too, you know...)

Just wait and see :-)



        RM 

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