VoIP Security, Spam What does the future hold? (old news - 09:08AM Monday Feb 07 2005) tags: VoIP
While VoIP does have its fair share of security flaws, the relatively low number of users makes it a semi-uninteresting target (for now), suggests Wired News. The article also repeats concerns that "spit" (spam over internet telephony) is inevitable, which could eventually put unnecessary stress on networks.
Perhaps efforts to make IP communication ubiquitous should be secondary to regulating those communications? Though isn't that an interesting statement? Many users would cry and scream about regulating IP communications, be they e-mail, VoIP, or just posting on this board. The very freedom we have to communicate over IP is what causes our headaches with the abuse of that freedom.
That being said, regulation probably isn't the answer (nor is it a welcome remedy). Then it remains...how do you prevent a perfectly legal, yet unwelcome, 3rd party communication? -- Statistical correlation need not imply causation. Technical Nirvana
VoIP Security, Spam
