1.3. Asterisk: The Hacker's PBX
Telecommunications companies who choose to
ignore Asterisk do so at their peril. The flexibility it delivers
creates possibilities that the best proprietary systems can
scarcely dream of. This is because Asterisk is the ultimate
hacker's PBX .
If someone asks you not to use the term hacker,
refuse. That term does not belong to the mass media. They stole it
and corrupted it to mean "malicious cracker." It's time we took it
back. Hackers built the networking engine that is the Internet.
Hackers built the Apple Macintosh and the Unix operating system.
Hackers are also building your next telecom system. Do not fear;
these are the good guys, and they'll be able to build a system
that's far more secure than anything that exists today, because
rather than being constricted by the dubious and easily cracked
security of closed systems, they will be able to quickly respond to
changing trends in security and fine-tune the telephone system in
response to both corporate policy and industry best practices.
Like other open source systems, Asterisk will be
able to evolve into a far more secure platform than any proprietary
system, not in spite of its hacker roots, but rather because of
them.
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