Sunday, July 13, 2014

Preparing for Astricon 2014

I will be heading out to Vegas to talk security in October

I have been allocated the following date and time for my talk (but would advise that this may be subject to change):

Date: Thursday, October 23rd
Time: 10.00-10.35am
Track: Security
Title: Making your Asterisk system secure


Have you signed up Astricon yet? 

Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Celebrating 137 years of public telephone

Today is the birthday of good old Ma Bell:



The Bell Telephone Company, a common law joint stock company, was organized in Boston, Massachusetts on July 9, 1877, by Alexander Graham Bell's father-in-law Gardiner Greene Hubbard, who also helped organize a sister company — the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company. (Source Wikipedia)

It constantly amazes me that we have come so far from Bell's original design to HD voice, fiber to the home, the internet, mobile phones, smart phones, and VoIP.

In so little time we have gone well beyond anything that could be imagined by the science fiction authors, some of whom influenced the current tech trend.

To please take a min. to think of good ol'Ma Bell and all her children (legitimate or otherwise) that bring you this post today.