[asterisk-dev] Dialplan oddities with recent Asterisk ?

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Tuesday 09 February 2010 12:26:51 Benny Amorsen wrote:
> Tilghman Lesher <tlesher at digium.com> writes:
> > I'll second this.  If you need to use the period or exclamation point in
> > your dialplan, chances are you're providing expensive services
> > (international) already, and you should be taking every measure to ensure
> > that you aren't charged incorrectly.  FILTER is an excellent tool for
> > this.
>
> That would be pretty much every installation of Asterisk though,
> wouldn't it? Except in-bound callcenters.

No, I think the only installations would be those that accept calls over
untrusted networks.  The question is whether you can trust your users
not to do that.  In a corporate environment, it's possible someone might
do that -- and face loss of his or her job.  Similarly, inbound IVRs don't
dial out, and they are therefore not vulnerable to this scenario.

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