Imagine receiving spurious calls over your voice network. A sizable number of such calls could render a VoIP telephone system unusable. In fact, VoIP systems are much more sensitive to parasitic operations than email, because of the real-time nature of telephone conversations. With email, a delay of a few minutes ...

Too many vendors and much of the media create unnecessary fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) around VoIP. No network manager wants to deploy VoIP and have a security incident compromise the call quality so FUD-based selling works well with VoIP. Information theft and unauthorized network access are much bigger concerns ...

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An interesting use of the traditionally trusted medium of the phone: leave “accidental” messages on answering machines and voicemail hyping a stock: The messages were made to seem mistakenly left on answering machines, often made by a caller identifying herself as “Debbie” who wanted to pass along to a girlfriend ...