Category: Podcasts
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The other story about the recording of the Telecom Junkies podcast: Interview with a VoIP Hacker – a.k.a. why my voice levels are so different
Continue Reading: The other story about the recording of the Telecom Junkies podcast: Interview with a VoIP Hacker – a.k.a. why my voice levels are so differentWhy does my voice change in audio quality about half-way through the new Telecom Junkies podcast? Here’s the story.
A few minutes ago I posted to both the Voice of VoIPSA weblog and also the Blue Box podcast site a note about the new Telecom Junkies podcast that features an interview with Robert Moore, one of the two people involved with the large VoIP fraud cast last year. About mid-way through my connection dies and you hear Jason saying “Oh, we lost Dan!” and then I’m back, but with a much softer voice.
Since it says something about telephony – and since I’m also interested in relaying lessons for podcasting – here’s what happened.
In the hotel I was staying at in Florida, I was getting pretty poor connections using my AT&T GSM phone (the replacement Blackberry had not yet arrived). I’d noticed that when calling people from my room, even if I went out onto the balcony, calls would still drop out sometimes – even when I was sitting still. Now I don’t know if this was because I was on the 20th floor (room 2048, what a great geek number!) or because I was at just a…
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Blue Box Podcast #56 posted, beginning a series of VoIP security tutorials
Continue Reading: Blue Box Podcast #56 posted, beginning a series of VoIP security tutorialsI posted Blue Box Podcast #56 tonight and with it Jonathan and I are beginning a series of mini-tutorials on subjects related to VoIP security. In this show, we talked about voice encryption. In the next show (already recorded) we will talk about signaling encryption. The idea is to cover some basic ground so that people not familiar with the area can have a basic understanding.
Just glad to get that one up – tomorrow I’m going to work on #57 to see if I can get it online for Wednesday. We’re trying hard to get back on a weekly schedule. (#56 was intended to go up last week.)
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Blue Box Podcast #50 finally hits the feed…
Continue Reading: Blue Box Podcast #50 finally hits the feed…Fans of Blue Box have to be aware that I’m a wee bit behind in posting episodes… so I was delighted to finally get Blue Box #50 uploaded yesterday. I still need to finish putting the show notes up there, but at least the show is out so that people can listen to it. Given that we recorded it January 17th, it has already aged a bit. Tonight or tomorrow I’m hoping to get #51 up… and then #52 has already been recorded as well… I’d like to get caught up before going out to ETel where I’m undoubtedly going to get more recordings for special editions.
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Blue Box Podcast #48 out with our predictions for 2007, VoIP security news, etc. – and the frustrating audio issues in post-production
Continue Reading: Blue Box Podcast #48 out with our predictions for 2007, VoIP security news, etc. – and the frustrating audio issues in post-productionEarlier this week I uploaded Blue Box Podcast #48, where Jonathan and I go beyond just talking about the news to also review the “top VoIP security news stories of 2006” and also get into our predictions for 2007. My prediction #1 will be fairly obvious for anyone who has listened to the show for a while. We also cover the typical range of VoIP security stories, talk about OpenID for caller authentication and many more things.
This was a bit frustrating of a show to post-produce. Post-production is always a somewhat lengthy process, anyway, because I want the enhanced audio that you get from a wideband codec, which means that we use Skype. However, Skype creates its own challenges with voice that will simply fade away or get garbled. It’s fairly routine that we have to disconnect and reconnect a time or two within the space of the hour in which we are recording the show. (That’s actually apparent in this show where Jonathan’s voice is at a lower level and then suddenly is much louder. After the reconnect, he wound up with more volume.) If I could get the audio quality in a softphone without the fade outs,…
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Blue Box Podcast #47 is now live… VoIP security hype, governments blocking Skype, SANS and VoIP training, more…
Continue Reading: Blue Box Podcast #47 is now live… VoIP security hype, governments blocking Skype, SANS and VoIP training, more…Blue Box Podcast #47 is now available for download. In this show, Jonathan and I talk about some of the recent articles and reports hyping VoIP security, recent comments from SANS about the need for better VoIP security training, moves by the Indian government to block Skype and other VoIP services and much, much more. Tons of listener comments in this show… probably the most we’ve ever had. See the show notes for all the links and info.
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Ken Camp: “I’ve been Blueboxed”
Continue Reading: Ken Camp: “I’ve been Blueboxed”(Originally posted at http://dyork.livejournal.com/257414.html)
Finally getting caught up on content recorded for Blue Box, I finished up on Monday night the interview I did with Ken Camp out at Internet Telephony in San Diego and posted the interview today. Ken responded with his post: “I’ve been Blueboxed“, which gave me a laugh because I don’t think I’ve ever seen the show name used as a verb before!
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