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Do you mean a spammer could ring my home BT land line from finding my Skype username? Or contact me on Skype from finding my land line no? or none of the above. On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 15:01 +0100, Gordon Henderson wrote: > Sorry for the indulgence, but I just want to "test this out" on the DCGLUG > folks out there to judge some feedback... > > eNnum for those who don't know is a DNS service which at it's simplest > lets you get a URI in return for feeding in a phone number. (Just like > you'd get a name for feeding in an IP address). The URI in question can be > used directly by a lot of standards based VoIP phones and services - the > net effect is that if I have my landline registered with enum and I also > have a VoIP way to call my landline, anyone in the world can feed the > number into the enum registry and get a VoIP URI and can then call me via > VoIP for free. > > The URIs look like web addresses - eg. sip:1234@xxxxxxxxxx might describe > my phone. > > Great, huh? > > But what if the spammers get hold of it - they can get/guess your phone > numbers and if my VoIP server allows anonymous calls to come from > unregistered sources, then it's a spammers delight! Imagine robots all > over the world placing calls to everyone who is VoIP accessible for free > and playing adverts at them.... > > Anyway, I've just been contacted by someone trying to get me onto their > reseller program so I can register all my clients numbers, etc. with enum > and you know what, call me cynical, but I'm not convinced. A recent search > told me it would cost up to £250 per registration and that's a lot of > money to let spammers call me for free... > > Potentially, it's a boon to bypass the telcos of the world, but I'm really > not convinced myself... > > So just wondering what the thoughts are from the south west... > > Gordon Regards Kevin Lucas Minions Post Master(Sub) reprieved (possibly!) Po House, Minions, Liskeard Cornwall PL14 5LE 01579363386 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html