POTS is used for the old telephone system (Plain Old Telephone System).
POTS is used for the old telephone system (Plain Old Telephone System). This is in contrast to VoIP which is used for the new telephony over IP.
Questions tagged [pots]
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Why is caller ID spoofing so simple, and catching offenders so hard?
There is plenty of software which allows a user to input a recipient's information, and a fake-originator's information, and the software will complete the caller ID spoof. I'm trying to understand why the telephony stack is so vulnerable to…
user3.1415927
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How secure is a land line phone call?
What are the risks of communicating sensitive information using a land line? Once my voice gets digitized does the carrier use encryption during transport?
We have all heard about rogue cell towers (stingray boxes) which render all cell phone…
Scott Stensland
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Is there any truth to the (to me) bizarre idea that you can "track" a phone call better depending on how long it goes on?
I have heard many prank calls from ~2004-2007. In many of them, completely different people all mention the same thing about them "tracking the pranker", clearly in an attempt to scare the prank caller into ceasing to call them, and specifically…
D Nowell
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