Now We Need To Worry About VoIP Spam
from the uh-oh dept
We're still trying to beat down spam, and people have been getting increasingly worried about IM spam and SMS spam, and all of a sudden one company is warning us that the rush to VoIP systems may lead to VoIP spam. In other words, once VoIP is just an app on the network, it shouldn't be all that difficult for someone to write a script that would basically spam a voice message to millions of VoIP systems. Of course, the company discussing this problem is bringing it up because they've now patented a solution that they claim will stop VoIP spam. All this really means is they've made clear the technique that future VoIP spammers are now figuring out how to work around.
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I'm already getting it -- from Vonage
I'm migrating people to my mobile number and then I'm canceling Vonage. Why pay to be spammed?
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I worried about VoIP spam
Till
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This thesis discusses the spam problem and presents possible solutions for making voice
over IP networks secure to spamming.
Spam has been an annoyance for communication via E-Mail since approximately six years. However, there is almost no spam in voice over IP networks since they are not very common yet. With the growth of these networks verbal communication that is virtually for free to a large community becomes possible. The same was true for written communication via E-Mail six years ago. An emergence of spam like it happened to
E-Mail in voice over IP networks is to be prevented in any case. Providing theories
and methods for preventing this is the focus of this thesis.
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My name is yuehua liang, a researcher from China. I am very interested in this topic and found your thesis is valuable. Could you please share the ideas to deal with voice spam emails with me? we can cooperate on this. Thanks a lot.
Regards,
yuehua
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pierce2003@126.com
please contact me. Thanks.
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thx Till
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Re: Re: I worried about VoIP spam
Is it possible for you to send me your thesis on voip spam ?
Regards,
John
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Re: I worried about VoIP spam
I have read your posting in techdirt, and I am very much interested reading your thesis on VoIP Spam.
Would it be possible if you can send me a copy of your thesis?
Phil
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Re: I worried about VoIP spam
I have read your posting in techdirt, and I am very much interested reading your thesis on VoIP Spam.
Would it be possible if you can send me a copy of your thesis thru my personal email :pilorufin@hotmail.com?
Phil
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Re: I worried about VoIP spam
as there seems to be some interest in my thesis and I already sent it to some of you guys I might as well post a link here. You can find my thesis at www.nic.at/voipspam/voip-spam-final.pdf
If you got any questions or comments please send me an E-Mail to firstname.surname@fh-sbg.ac.at (my firstname is till, my surname is radermacher).
Kindly,
Till
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thank u very much.
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need some SPAM
curly@csat.binc.net
moe@csat.binc.et
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