Some weaknesses, already well-known to hackers, foreign governments and, most likely, jihadists, have been exposed in two areas: the Domain Name System that VeriSign oversees and the Border Gateway Protocol, which governs how Internet service providers and large networks exchange routing information.

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Peter Thermos, chief technology officer of Palindrome Technologies , proved the point onstage: He played snippets of conversations recorded by snooping on VoIP calls, exploiting vulnerability in a common element in VoIP communications known as media gateway control protocol.

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