Depending on whom you ask, VoIP and IP telephony has probably been around for nearly a decade - the same amount of time that the Internet has been publicly available. And yet, in that time, it has a relatively small penetration in the telecommunications market in terms of consumer (business or individual) use. While the [...]
VoIP software like Skype is more popular than ever before. Its ease of use, economical way of communication and document sharing capability has added to its advantage. People have started using it in their homes. And it is slowly entering into their work environment as well.
This brings in a big security risk.
To start with, Skype’s [...]
VoIP News talks about some of the call center crime that is going on in India. The truth is that business VoIP features allows for call centers to be set up with at relatively little cost, but security is an issue. So how does a client in, say, North America, make a call center responsible? [...]
Remember the big hoopla around the NSA and wire-tapping in the USA? Well that was for landline and cell phone calls, although there were alegations that the government had given permission for them to also tap VoIP calls. But between encrypted calls and firewalls many commentators thought that government agencies would be unable [...]
Moshe Yudkowsky has a briliant idea regarding email addresses that extends to phone numbers: disposability. I haven’t quite gone as far as he has with email addresses, but I’ve been sketching out a “virtual email” system that could accomplish the same thing, and be used by anyone on any domain, via my web service. The [...]