When we built our last home, I ran the phoneline, where it came out of the
ground, thru a 1" black "gas" pipe, up from the concrete slab and into the
wall of the garage. I had the installer put the Interface box inside the
garage instead of on an outside wall. There was no sign of any phone
components outside.

Not a matter of being paranoid, just having twists that a burglar would
be hard to anticipate.