Voice of VOIPSA

By the way, if you have left a comment to this blog and noticed that it didn’t appear right away, it is because we are unfortunately moderating all comments due to recieving a great amount of blog comment spam (As an example, in one recent 24-hour period, we received over 35 bogus comments across a whole range of posts here). It truly is amazing the lengths the spammers will go to in order to increase the search engine ranking of their websites. The recent variants include some mundane comment as the text (such as “Great website. I learned a lot. Keep up the great work.”) but then put the spammer’s URL in the URL for the comment author (which we currently display). It’s a bit subtle in that at first glance you might want to approve the comment… until you look at the URL.

Anyway, we are going to keep moderation on until we get a chance to put in some type of CAPTCHA system or other way to prevent bots and scripts from injecting all these comments. And yes, we do realize that spammers are paying people to sit there and fill out comment fields, thereby defeating CAPTCHA tools… but hey, at least we would eliminate the automated spam – and it potentially forces spammers to lose some profit by paying people, which somehow doesn’t upset me at all.

VOIPSA includes the world’s experts in security and privacy for converged media. That’s why you’re here!

At any moment on the clock, people somewhere on this planet are awake, alert and wanting to communicate, both for business, family and the general welfare. As VOIPSA has grown we now have members in every time zone, all working to ensure that digital communication is safe, reliable and empowers everyone.

Not surprisingly, many of you have asked for a way to talk to each other about the work you’re doing, the challenges to make security and privacy effective and a way to share related events, news and project proposals. Many of you have also asked for a way to meet-up locally and post invitations to workshops or informal meet-ups.

By virtual simultaneous presence in Mumbai (Bombay), Shanghai, Seoul, Tokyo, Mexico City, New York, Helsinki, and Johannesberg, and frankly everywhere else on the planet, we are today announcing this web log. What you are reading is a medium for collaboration in your field without regard to the size of nation, population or geography.

We are eager to see your ideas in discussion with each other.

Thank you for encouraging us to set-up a blog.

We look forward to your contributions and reading your posts.