VoIPSpam Is Here

ZDNet has an interesting article on VoIP Spam.

When you think about it, if clients can be made to check your voicemail more easily for VoIP services like VMRover how hard is it to do what ZD reports.

If the FCC and other legislative bodies don’t extend the Do Not Call list concept to VoIP it’s a huge problem.

Here’s a suggestion. First put your number on the do not call list when it’s still a PSTN line, then transfer to VoIP. You will have been on the list and in theory they listing stays in effect. But for all the new numbers being assigned for VoIP the problem if not nipped in the bud now, will be a huge problem.

In thinking this through the whole VoIP security issue will be a difficult one for the smaller VoIP companies to solve. While MCI, Level3, Sprint and AT&T have the experience with data and managing their own networks for upstarts like Vonage, VoicePulse and Packet8 the issues are larger than they are ready today to absorb in both R&D and deployment. I recall when Aravox wanted to build a business around a SIP firewall. They saw the market need long before the market was there. Sadly, the company died in the telecom meltdown. I don’t know who owns the intellectual property, but it may be worth finding…..