NEC has a new toy to filter junk IP calls
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Internet telephony makes phone calls cheaper. Cheaper as email, cheaper so that advertisers and spammers ring your phone with automated messages, especially this year, dubbed 2007 by security experts as the year of spam, phishing, vishing, hacking over the IP phone. And NEC already has an answer to the anticipated situation: An anti-nuisance calls companion.
The VoIP Seal is designed to decorate server computers, but when the IP phone rings, it triggered a Turing test to determine if calls crossing the network are real or are pre-recorded messages that have been generated automatically in much the same way spam email is created. The Turing test is a well-known method created by Alan Turing in the 1950s, and is used to testing whether the caller is a human or a machine by testing a machine’s capability to perform human-like conversation.
NEC will showcase the device at the upcoming 3GSM exhibition in Spain. It claims a 99% success rate in filtering out such junk calls, which it believes must be tackled if VoIP technology is to gain full market penetration.
Jan 26, 2007 | By Nuno
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