Well, I gave it a valiant try, but the lesson of this week is that I have to either: 1) wipe and re-format my laptop; or 2) figure out another way to do post-production while travelling. When trying this week to edit the recording Jonathan and I did right before I left for IETF, my laptop kept entering a state of doing an insane amount of disk swapping... and not letting me get the editing done. So, I'm unfortunately going to have to delay it until I get back home and can use my normal system there.
The good news for you all is that you will wind up with two Blue Box podcasts next week.
BTW, the IETF meeting was excellent... if you haven't gone before, I'd definitely consider it for future meetings!
FYI, we've now recorded interviews with people about IMS security and IPv6 security... both of those shows will be posted soon. Also, this week's podcast will be coming soon - either late tonight or tomorrow. I'm up at IETF in Montreal and a wee bit challeged for production time.
The 2006 People's Choice Podcast Awards have opened up nominations through July 15th and if any listeners would care to nominate our show in the Technology/Science, Business or other categories, we would be deeply honored. I'm not necessarily a huge fan of these type of contests, but in this case I believe Todd Cochrane and his crew do a very solid job with the overall process and it's one that I definitely support. I've gone and nominated several of the shows I believe should be considered - and would encourage you to do the same. (If you want to nominate several shows for the same category, you can vote again each calendar day - so nominate some today, then some more tomorrow, etc. ) Voting in the contest begins later in July, but the first step is to make it through the nomination process. Thank you for your consideration.
As we mentioned on recent shows, I (Dan) was a guest on a recent Telecom Junkies Podcast called "VoIP Fraud Sets Off New Alarms" where we discussed the Pena/Moore voip fraud case that we've been discussing on recent shows. Target audience was for "telecom managers" at large enterprises and is produced by the folks who create "The Telecom Manager's Voice Report".
The other guests on the show with me were Gary Meliefsky from NetClarity and consultant Ken Agress. Definitely a fun show to do and I appreciated the Voice Report folks having me on the show.
Synopsis: VoIP fraud case and CALEA revisited, VoIP security news, listener comments and much, much more...
Welcome to Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast show #33, a 44-minute podcast from Dan York and Jonathan Zar with news and commentary about the world of VoIP security. This show covers the usual VoIP security news, but then through some excellent listener comments gets back into a continued discussion of the Pena/Moore VoIP fraud case and also CALEA.
Comments, suggestions and feedback are welcome either as replies to this post or via e-mail to [email protected]. 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 +1-206-338-6654 to leave a comment there.
Show Content:
00:20 - Intro to the show, contact information and how to provide comments. Welcome to all the new listeners. Mention of our listener survey - PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO COMPLETE THE SURVEY! (Thank you!)
02:35 - Mention of upcoming Telecom Junkies podcast where this VoIP fraud case will be discussed.
02:56 - Mention of IETF meeting and the audio streaming and the actual IETF agenda (also, if you have no understanding of how the IETF works, you may want to read The Tao of IETF )
04:33 - Dan will be at Fall VON in Boston and Internet Telephony in San Diego - we'll plan dinners there.
Comments, suggestions and feedback are welcome either as replies to this post or via e-mail to [email protected]. 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 +1-206-338-6654 to leave a comment there.
Thank you for listening and please do let us know what you think of the show.
Synopsis: ENUM tutorial, VoIP security news, listener comments and much, much more...
Welcome to Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast show #32, a 49-minute podcast from Dan York and Jonathan Zar with news and commentary about the world of VoIP security. This show includes a 14-minute tutorial on ENUM - what it is and what implications it has for security - as well as the usual coverage of VoIP security news and comments from listeners
Comments, suggestions and feedback are welcome either as replies to this post or via e-mail to [email protected]. 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 +1-206-338-6654 to leave a comment there.
Show Content:
00:20 - Intro to the show, contact information and how to provide comments. Welcome to all the new listeners. Mention of our listener survey - PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO COMPLETE THE SURVEY! (Thank you!)
02:38 - Discussion of why the first release of show #31 sounded like a really bad rap mashup
06:23 - I will be a guest on the upcoming Telecom Junkies podcast where the recent Pena/Moore VoIP fraud case will be discussed.
07:50 - Dan will be at the IETF 66th Meeting in Montreal, June 9-14 - Please drop us a note if you are going to be there.
08:11 - Dan will be attending Fall VON 2006 in Boston in September and will also be speaking out at the Internet Telephony conference in San Diego in October… so we’ll definitely have to do something there.
08:29 - Anyone have any opinions about WordOfBlog.net – they have contacted us about putting a graphic in there and I’m still not sure what all it is.
16:40 - Dave Endler and Mark Collier launch a website and a weblog about their upcoming book “Hacking VoIP Exposed”. They will also be out at Black Hat in August.
18:09 - CNet: FCC approves new Internet phone taxes
39:18 - Audio and email comment from Miguel Castillo Holgado
42:27 - Email comment from Reid Palmeira
43:18 - Audio comment from Andy Zmolek and mention of audio comment from Perry Engle
44:11 - Email comment from Miguel Castillo Holgado asking about Juniper’s white papers
46:15 - Review of the last week's traffic on the VOIPSEC public mailing list, mostly focused on softphone vulnerabilities and a continued heavy discussion of Skype security
Comments, suggestions and feedback are welcome either as replies to this post or via e-mail to [email protected]. 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 +1-206-338-6654 to leave a comment there.
Thank you for listening and please do let us know what you think of the show.
Synopsis: VoIP fraud case, CALEA tutorial/commentary, VoIP security news, listener comments and much, much more...
Welcome to Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast show #31, a 53-minute podcast from Dan York and Jonathan Zar with news and commentary about the world of VoIP security. This show includes a 10-minute segment on the recent Pena/Moore VoIP fraud case and about a 15-minute discussion of the recent FCC decision about CALEA and what that means. There is of course the usual coverage of VoIP security news and comments from listeners
Comments, suggestions and feedback are welcome either as replies to this post or via e-mail to [email protected]. 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 +1-206-338-6654 to leave a comment there.
NOTE:I would welcome any comments about the audio quality of this MP3 file as compared to our other shows would be appreciated - I am trying out a new audio encoder. Thanks.
Show Content:
00:20 - Intro to the show, contact information and how to provide comments. Welcome to all the new listeners. Mention of our listener survey - PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO COMPLETE THE SURVEY! (Thank you!) It looks like Dan will most likely be at the IETF 66th Meeting in Montreal, June 9-14 - Please drop us a note if you are going to be there. Check out VOIPSA's blog if you have not already done so.
10:28 - Feature discussion of recent VoIP fraud scam that was all over the news:
42:47 - Email comment from Mark Trifiro about having links launch in new windows
44:44 - Audio comment from Adrian Braun
45:27 - Email comment from Miguel Garcia – will be at IETF
45:51 - Email comment from “verizon user” pointing to ITAA report being on RISKS list
46:24 - Email comment from David Belle-Isle (threat vs vulnerability)
47:40 - Email comment from Chris Serafin about giving a customer case study
49:28 - Review of the last week's traffic on the VOIPSEC public mailing list, mostly focused on softphone vulnerabilities and a continued heavy discussion of Skype security
51:26 - Shoutout to Sasha, the host of the Skype podcast
Comments, suggestions and feedback are welcome either as replies to this post or via e-mail to [email protected]. 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 +1-206-338-6654 to leave a comment there.
Thank you for listening and please do let us know what you think of the show.
Unfortunately, it appears that some issue with low disk space on my laptop (I'm currently travelling) caused my edited audio file to become corrupted. Luckily (because it was a great show) I have a copy of the unedited show, but I now have to re-do the post-production, which with current travel is not something I will probably be able to do until Sunday evening or Monday morning. So look for the show then. (And in the meantime I've freed up a large amount of diskspace to prevent the recurrence.)
I'll briefly explain a bit more of what happened in show #32, which we are recording on Monday with the goal to have it out next Wednesday. So you'll probably wind up with two shows next week.
Thanks, again, to all of you who contacted me to let me know what happened.
Thanks to the several listeners who called/emailed to tell me that there was a problem with the MP3 file for show #31. I have no idea what happened, but I've pulled down the file and weblog entry until I can figure it out.
UPDATE: It appears that my edited file was corrupted (potentially due to low disk space), so it looks like I need to re-edit at least some portion of the file (good news is that I have the original recording)... so it will be a longer project that I'll have to do tonight.
With show #30, I made a subtle change to the "Name" field of the ID3 tags associated with the show MP3 file. Instead of "Blue Box Podcast #30: ...", it is now "Blue Box #30: ...". I made the change after looking at a list of shows on my iPod and realizing that you couldn't see the number in the limited number of characters on the screen. There is no easy way to know which show was listed. I figured having "Podcast" in the ID3 name was rather redundant, so I dropped it.
The only impact this may have on you is that if you use iTunes or another MP3 player that lets you sort by track name (or defaults to doing this), "Blue Box #30:..." will now be listed before the previous episodes whose names began "Blue Box Podcast #xx:...". Note that there was no change to the file name - this was purely in the ID3 tags associated with the file.
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