Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] People say that "VOIP Spam Is Coming"...

[Craig Southeren <craigs postincrement com>]

I posted a brief article on this exact topic back in January, 

http://www.southeren.com/blog/archives/000056.html

   Craig

On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 13:03:06 +0100 (BST)
Chris Rankin <rankincj yahoo com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> The prospect of VOIP Spam doesn't seem too unlikely,
> either. Just imagine having GM constantly buzzing with
> calls which turn out to be adverts for <whatever>!!!
> 
> At the moment, I use my firewall to "white-list" all
> incoming callers. I also use the GNU Gatekeeper.
> However, the Gatekeeper *must* allow connections from
> unregistered enpoints so that accepting incoming calls
> become practical anway. (Thanks for that tip, BTW.) So
> that's one source of authentication gone.
> 
> Are there any other methods of authentication which
> would be permissible under the current standard
> protocol? For example, is there any way that GM could
> refuse to talk to clients that don't autenticate
> themselves with PGP keys? This would allow me to move
> my "caller white-list" off my firewall and into GM,
> which would be a good thing because people tend to
> have dynamic IP addresses anyway.
> 
> There's obviously nothing stopping people from
> connecting to (say) ils.seconix.com and trying to call
> people at random, because that's precisely what a lot
> of users do already.
> 
> Does anyone have any thoughts on this subject, please?
> Cheers,
> Chris

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