asterisk users - Jul 2004 - VoIP hackers gut Caller ID

There has been a sudden increase in VoIP pro and con articles.  Lots of
political discussion.  I think we are seeing the first major PR attempts
by Telcos to stem the VoIP tide.

regards
joe

The Register is carrying a article written by Kevin Poulsen of
Securtiy Focus, calling asterisk  "..the most powerful tool for
manipulating and accessing CPN data.."
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/07/hackers_gut_voip/
I hope NuFone doesn't drop asterisk-set-able callerid's after this
article; i've been wanting that feature from voicepluse for a long
time.

Chris Foster wrote:
> The Register is carrying a article written by Kevin Poulsen of
> Securtiy Focus, calling asterisk  "..the most powerful tool for
> manipulating and accessing CPN data.."
> 
> 
>>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/07/hackers_gut_voip/
> 
> 
> I hope NuFone doesn't drop asterisk-set-able callerid's after this
> article; i've been wanting that feature from voicepluse for a long
> time.
These kind of things will be reason (excuse) for Voip to be regulated

> There has been a sudden increase in VoIP pro and con articles.  Lots of
> political discussion.  I think we are seeing the first major PR attempts
> by Telcos to stem the VoIP tide.
There is actually a fair amount of activity going on in the background
from a "lot" of telcos (small and large) to get more involved with
voip.

Let them suffer like the record industry.  Times are changing, better change
with them or fall by the wayside.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Baptista" <baptista@dot-god.com>
To: <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 5:19 PM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP under attack ... Bellcos rock and roll out PR

>
> There has been a sudden increase in VoIP pro and con articles.  Lots of
> political discussion.  I think we are seeing the first major PR attempts
> by Telcos to stem the VoIP tide.
>
> regards
> joe
>
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Chris Foster wrote:
> The Register is carrying a article written by Kevin Poulsen of
> Securtiy Focus, calling asterisk  "..the most powerful tool for
> manipulating and accessing CPN data.."
> 
> 
>>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/07/hackers_gut_voip/
> 
> 
> I hope NuFone doesn't drop asterisk-set-able callerid's after this
> article; i've been wanting that feature from voicepluse for a long
> time.

Then NuFone customers better not abuse this power.



Jeremy McNamara

Chris Foster wrote:
> The Register is carrying a article written by Kevin Poulsen of
> Securtiy Focus, calling asterisk  "..the most powerful tool for
> manipulating and accessing CPN data.."
> 
> 
>>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/07/hackers_gut_voip/
> 
> 
> I hope NuFone doesn't drop asterisk-set-able callerid's after this
> article; i've been wanting that feature from voicepluse for a long
> time.

For the record Kevin Poulsen never called me and the account that was 
abusing caller*id has been terminated.


Jeremy McNamara

On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 05:29, Chris Foster wrote:
> I hope NuFone doesn't drop asterisk-set-able callerid's after this
> article; i've been wanting that feature from voicepluse for a long
> time.
My VoicePulse Connect line allows you to set Caller ID.

-- PhoneBoy

Because if p2p voip means i get the
 same volume of junk phonecalls as i 
 currently do spam emails
i am not even going to _think_ about
adopting it.

We _need_ authentification.

"Steve Totaro" <asterisk@totarotechnologies.com> wrote:
__________
>why regulate?  nobody regulates the return address on a letter sent via
>USPS.
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Kevin Walsh" <kevin@cursor.biz>
>To: <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 10:00 AM
>Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP hackers gut Caller ID
>
>
>> Adam Hart [adam@teragen.com.au] wrote:
>> > Chris Foster wrote:
>> > > The Register is carrying a article written by Kevin Poulsen
of
>> > > Securtiy Focus, calling asterisk  "..the most powerful
tool for
>> > > manipulating and accessing CPN data.."
>> > >
>> > > I hope NuFone doesn't drop asterisk-set-able
callerid's after this
>> > > article; i've been wanting that feature from voicepluse
for a long
>> > > time.
>> > >
>> > These kind of things will be reason (excuse) for Voip to be
regulated
>> >
>> Perhaps service providers who allow the Caller*ID to be set should
>> insist that customers provide evidence that they own the phone numbers
>> that they want to publish, and then limit the customers' choices to
>> only the numbers in their approved list.  Calling the customer on the
>> provided number(s) would be an easy way to check, and a setup fee
>> could be levied to cover the provider's time and expenses, if
required.
>>
>> Being able to discover a "blocked" Caller*ID is another
matter.  Both
>> are good areas for regulation.
>>
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