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11 May 2008

PhoneBoy’s Week That Was 11 May 2008

PhoneBoyHappy Mothers Day to all you mothers out there!

This past week has been a busy week for posts, it seems like. I even managed a post on my internal Nokia blog this week. …

1 May 2008

AOL Allows SIP Clients To Make Calls. This Is News?

Filed under: software, telecom, voip - 01 May 2008

Voice over Internet Protocol, how it worksImage via Wikipedia

So let me get this straight. AOL is “opening” their telephony platform to allow …

30 April 2008

iSkoot for S60 Upgraded: Obscured by SSL

Filed under: security, software, voip - 30 Apr 2008

I will admit to not testing the “forced” upgrade aspect of this, but I did download and install the upgraded iSkoot for my Nokia N95 this …

28 April 2008

iSkoot Pulls S60 Build, Plans To Push Fix 30 April 2008

Filed under: mobile phones, security, software, voip - 28 Apr 2008

CIA Triad.Image via Wikipedia

While it was, admittedly, not very nice of me to hand iSkoot a …

27 April 2008

iSkoot Will Fix The Encryption Issue On Nokia S60 Client

Filed under: nokia, security, software, voip - 27 Apr 2008

Looks like iSkoot made a mistake with their Nokia S60 client and will make it right. Apparently a non-production version of the S60 client made it to the public web, which sends data in the clear. Other published versions of …

26 April 2008

Proof of iSkoot Passing Credentials In The Clear

Filed under: security, telecom, voip - 26 Apr 2008

Dan York asked for this. Here’s the tell-tale sign from tcpdump that the user information is in the clear. Obviously, I used a different username than my own here as obscuring my password was difficult:
10:29:56.656220 IP 10.3.2.124.43852 > 69.25.76.54.80: P …

iSkoot Transmits Your Data In The Clear

Filed under: security, software, voip - 26 Apr 2008

Various people are thinking that Skype Mobile is basically an unbranded iSkoot, which does the same thing in much the same way. Generally speaking, …

25 April 2008

Deconstructing The Skype Mobile Client for J2ME

Filed under: mobile phones, software, voip - 25 Apr 2008

Various people today on Jaiku and Twitter pointed me at the mobile Skype client for J2ME handsets. Several Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, and SonyEricsson phones are …

22 April 2008

Skype to SIP Possible, In Use

Filed under: software, telecom, voip - 22 Apr 2008

Session Initiation ProtocolImage via Wikipedia

One of the more frequent complaints I hear about Skype is that it doesn’t interface with SIP. Of course, …

21 April 2008

Skype Extending Unlimited Calling

Filed under: software, voip - 21 Apr 2008

SkypeThe word from various places, including Skype Journal, is that Skype is creating some new unlimited plans to replace the Skype Pro and Skype Unlimited …

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