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April 02, 2007

Blue Box SE #17: Interview with Saverio Niccolini from NEC about efforts to combat SPIT

Synopsis: Interview with Saverio Niccolini from NEC about efforts to combat SPIT.


Welcome to Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast Special Edition #17, a 9-minute podcast of an interview by Martyn Davies of Saverio Niccolini from NEC about efforts to combat Spam-for-Internet-Telephony (SPIT). The interview took place at the 3GSM World Congress 2007 held February 12-15, 2007, in Barcelona, Spain.

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At the 3GSM World Congress 2007, Blue Box contributor Martyn Davies had a chance to record an interview with Saverio Niccolini about NEC's efforts to combat Spam for Internet Telephony (SPIT).  Specifically, they discussed NEC's new program VOIPSEAL, the prototype of which was unveiled at the 3GSM conference. Saverio is a Senior Research Staff Member in the Network Laboratories at NEC (www.netlab.nec.de)

Saverio has provided the following links for additional information about the VOIP SEAL solution:

We thank Martyn for contributing this interview and Saverio for his participation.

Comments, suggestions and feedback are welcome either as replies to this post  or via e-mail to blueboxpodcast@gmail.com.  Audio comments sent as attached MP3 files are definitely welcome and will be played in future shows.  You may also call the listener comment line at either +1-206-350-2583 or via SIP to 'bluebox@voipuser.org' to leave a comment there.

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Can not view any of the pdf files
- NLE-SPIT-public-07-01.pdf
- VoIP_SEAL-PR-ENG-20070126.pdf

Adobe Acrobat is giving some error and does not show anything

Same bug, cannot view any of the pdf files.
Adobe Acrobat is giving some Font error and does not show anything.

Saverio freshened the files on the FTP server. All three look good to me now.

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