If you want to bring old VOIP phones for recycling, you should still read this blog. Please let me know if you want to add anything, agree or disagree or have any other comments. I definitely report after every comment on a blog. Degraded VOIP phones can cause a very serious data breach. In fact, your old VOIP phones are extremely useful to fraudsters looking to take a bunch of money from your company.
First of all just what information can be like in a VOIP phone:
- Lists of your company’s contacts
- Recorded voice mails
- Call – logs. either call history, who called and who called you.
But one of the most troubling things left in a depreciated VOIP phone is its NUMBER. Either his old boss. By this I mean that your old VOIP device was recognized by your business associates and continues to be recognized by your business associates. Not only that one sees your number on the screen but nowadays there are numerous intelligent systems that instantly recognize that it is you who is calling.
The security of a VOIP device:
There’s almost none: A depreciated VOIP phone from someone else you can just plug in like that, and there’s no password on it like a computer or cell phone. So if you hand over your depreciated VOIP phones for recycling – and you don’t have them destroyed – then anyone can pretend to be you. So one can just call and say they are calling on your behalf. This is giant practical for bottle pullers and fraudsters.
Advice from IT recycling regarding old VOIP devices:
I think old VOIP phones should really be destroyed. IT recycling has now included destruction of VOIP phones in its price list. There is actually no market for old VOIP devices, therefore – at least with us – the old VOIP devices will find their Waterloo in our shredder. To my knowledge, IT recycling is the only certified data shredder that has VOIP phone destruction as standard in its price list. So apparently this topic is not at all well known. We can destroy VOIP devices both on-site – and on a take-home basis. I also notice with our customers that people are still completely unaware of the security problems with old VOIP teostellen. Let’s not hope that things have to go badly wrong first….