* Gearhead: A great, free VoIP system * Backspin: Prepared for the worst * Gibbsblog: The past 7 days
Gearhead: A great, free VoIP system
Some weeks ago the Gearhead Underground Bunker started to fill up with some really cool VoIP stuff, including 3CX’s free software-only VoIP PBX and a couple of D-Link VoIP DVG-2001S Terminal Adapters that convert regular telephones into Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) phones. This has resulted in more than a few hours of play, er, testing and analysis over the last few days.
To read this week’s Gearhead, click here.
Backspin: Prepared for the worst
Several readers wrote in after last week’s column to ask whether it was a good idea to tell the bad guys about One Wilshire — the carrier hotel inhabited by a bunch of Tier 1 service providers — and how to find it.
To read this week’s Backspin, click here.
Gibbsblog: The past 7 days
Google to buy DoubleClick for $3.1B
Honest.
United We Stand: Collaborating on Security
I recently interviewed John N. Stewart, Vice President and Chief Security Officer of Cisco Systems about an interesting aspect of security: The the bad guys collaborate while the good guys ignore each other. I thought this was really interesting and we all know how it works — we see a competitor’s security problems as an advantage to us. John’s point is that through collaboration we can be more effective in fighting them. Listen to the podcasts — it is in two parts:Part 1 and Part 2.
