[VOIPSEC] FYI - ETel 2006 presentations by Phil Zimmerman (of PGP fame) and Brad Templeton (chairman of EFF) online

[dan_york at Mitel.com]

VOIPSEC folks,

While out at O'Reilly's Emerging Telephony conference last week in San 
Francisco, I received
permission from O'Reilly and the speakers to record a couple of sessions 
and make them available
as audio downloads as part of Jonathan Zar and my project - Blue Box: The 
VoIP Security Podcast.

I'm delighted to say that two of those sessions are up.  The first is from 
Phil Zimmermann, the creator
of PGP, who now aims to make a secure phone technology that does for voice 
what PGP did for e-mail:

  http://www.blueboxpodcast.com/2006/01/blue_box_etel20.html

It was quite interesting and he was around for some subsequent informal 
conversations that were
quite enjoyable.  It will be interesting to see where his 'zFone' goes.

The second ETel session is from Brad Templeton, Chairman of the Board of 
Directors of the Electronic
Frontier Foundation (EFF):

   http://www.blueboxpodcast.com/2006/01/blue_box_etel20_1.html

He gave a very entertaining presentation railing against the FCC's recent 
decision to apply CALEA
to VoIP service providers, announced a lawsuit, talked about wiretapping 
and talked about other
things such as the Universal Service Fee.  Regardless of where you stand 
on these issues, I think
you will find this presentation enjoyable.

If you already subscribe to the RSS feed for Blue Box: The VoIP Security 
Podcast,
you probably already have these shows downloaded for you to hear.  If you 
don't subscribe, you
can just download the MP3 files from the websites above.  (And no, you 
don't need an iPod to
listen to these... you can just play the audio on your regular desktop 
PC.)

Jonathan and I thank both O'Reilly and the two presenters for giving us 
permission to record
these sessions and make them available to listeners.

Enjoy,
Dan

P.S. I recorded other sessions and interviews out at ETel 2006, along with 
another weekly podcast,
and those will be appearing online over the next week or so as I get the 
time to clean-up and 
post the shows in my off-hours.

-- 
Dan York, CISSP
Dir of IP Technology, Office of the CTO
Mitel Corp.     http://www.mitel.com
dan_york at mitel.com +1-613-592-2122
PGP key (F7E3C3B4) available for 
secure communication