[Asterisk-Users] Re: VoIP SPAM, what's next ?

[Soren Rathje]

Walt Reed wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 02:12:51PM -0700, Scott Laird said:
>> On Aug 10, 2004, at 1:14 PM, Loek Gijben wrote:
>>> "hank" <hank at hanksmith.net> wrote:
>>>> voip spam?
>>>> I have never gotten any yet.
>>> 
>>> It's is just waiting for the first one to arrive..
>>> The mechanics are just too appealing for spam-like businesses.
>>> 
>> Why stop there--you can beam pre-recorded messages to phones without
>> a person or phone line ever being involved.  You could send hundreds
>> of calls per minute without paying for more then a cheap PC and a
>> T-1. 
> 
> Well, this seems like an DNSBL would be helpful. DNSBL's work quite
> well at shutting off the big spammer networks. VoIP spam from
> broadband / DSL / dialup shouldn't be as bad due to the limited
> bandwidth unless they do the backdoor / trojan / viruses like email
> spammers do.

A VoIP based Beagle e-mail worm with it's own SIP stack ??? LOL...

Hmm.. Maybe I should air this on grc.com, some of the propellarheads there may have a clue...

/Soren