Category Archives: Industry News
Leveraging Asterisk and a SIP Trunk to Unmask Private Calls
FierceVoIP has some coverage this morning of Kevin Mitnick’s presentation at the recent Last HOPE (Hackers on Planet Earth) conference where he utilized Asterisk and a SIP Trunk to “unmask” the CallerID of a private caller. If you don’t know who Kevin Mitnick is you can read more about him here. A video [...]
CNet Blogger Matt Asay on VoIP: “..it’s all rubbish.”
Matt Asay, member of the CNet Blog Network and OSS technology pundit, weighs in on VoIP.
Voice-over-IP (VOIP) has long promised to significantly disrupt the telecommunications market. And so it has. Never before have so many people paid so little for technology that doesn’t work.
Yes, I know. You probably have a VOIP provider that works. All [...]
FCC Chair Kevin Martin Scolds Comcast for P2P Tomfoolery
John Paczowski over at AllThingsD reports on the FCC’s pending action against Comcast for violation of net neutrality pricinciples in blocking P2P filesharing traffic.
The problem with “principles” is that they pre-suppose integrity, which is not an integral component of capitalism. Comcast will almost certainly mount a legal appeal to any action taken by the [...]