Voice over IP

I could not place a call over VOIP, so I logged into my voip account on the website where my account is managed. Saw the usual tabs for checking my balance, call history, profile, etc. Plus a new tab “KYC”.

WTF people. KYC has turned my bank into a police station that pisses all over privacy. What’s going on here? Is it that no one resisted KYC in banking, so now they have decided to start deploying it in other areas?

Entering the KYC tab tells me:

“Your account is unverified. We need:

• selfie of you holding your ID card
• copy of your ID card
• utility bill or bank statement

This is so fucked up. Have any other VOIP users noticed this?

It turns out I can still make calls -- it was just a temporary glitch. But I guess I should ditch this VOIP provider.

Looking for a SIP provider for my very low usage. So I’m after:

1. prepaid without monthly fee, pay per unit time (no DID needed)
2. security (TLS or SRTP)
3. caller ID control (I have no inbound voice line; I have an inbound fax line I prefer to use; freetyping CID info nanny-free is the best)
4. web portals must support Tor, no Cloudflare
5. (not critical) support for lightweight codecs like speex, gsm, or bv16

The closest provider to satisfying that criteria I’ve found so far is leap.tel, but they lack TLS/SRTP and only support G.711. DID Logic supports TLS/SRTP, but they only have plans with monthly fees.

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/9382315

I have had no problem using VOIP over #protonVPN until recently. Connections happen but there is no audio. Anyone notice this?

I wondered if maybe they decided to make VOIP a non-free feature, but their premium plans do not list VOIP as an extra feature.