Future Tense Podcast for February 8, 2005

09/02/2005

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Episode Synopsis

Voice Over IP, or "VoIP", is an increasingly popular way to make a receive phone calls. Voices are routed over the Internet instead of the old telephone network. It offers more features and lower prices--but appears to be vulnerable to the same security threats that plague the 'Net.

A new industry group, the VoIP Security Alliance, wants to get on top of would-be VoIP hackers, spammers, and fraudsters before they ruin the new technology.