A co-worker of mine pointed this article from Forbes magazine out to me earlier this week and I found it pretty interesting:








http://www.forbes.com/2007/08/02/voip-security-flaws-tech-internet-cx_ag_0802techvoip.html?partner=daily_newsletter

The bottom line here, which I suppose is no shocker, is that despite how far VoIP has come in terms of its technological development, and despite its cost-effective nature, the technology remains more vulnerable to attacks than traditional circuit-switch technology. If you've used VoIP before, you also realize that the call quality is not quite there yet either.

But hey, there's usually always a trade-off when your number one purchasing decision criteria is weighted more towards price rather than quality. And I'm not dissing VoIP, I have a VoIP phone in my office and use it quite a bit. Furthermore, consumers around the world are adopting VoIP at a record clip and it likely will one day be the Supreme method of voice communication. Nobody is perfect and apparently the saying rings true to VoIP as well.

So apparently the challenge is on for VoIP providers to fortify their offerings and make them as less susceptible to attack as humanly possible. This could be a make or break situation for many industry players.

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