NEC To Offer VOIP SEAL - No More SPIT

The NEC Corporation has developed a new technology that it claims will keep SPIT (Spam over Internet Technology) from effecting VOIP subscribers. VOIP SEAL, as NEC has labeled it, uses The Turning Test to determine if a call is legitimate or not.

The Turning Test was first described by Professor Alan Turning back in 1950. In it, a human judge would have a conversation with two parties – one human and one machine. If the human judge could not tell them apart then the machine was said to have passed.

The Turning Test is now being used to see if VOIP calls are coming from the financial institution that is being claimed. NEC says it ran tests using the VOIP SEAL and they showed that the new system was able to block 99 percent of SPIT from ringing through someone’s VOIP phone.

As VOIP continues to increase in popularity, the bad guys will become more creative in stealing consumers’ personal information. Using an automated voice fits right in with the times. So many people today are use to telemarketers, customer service, and many other calls being handled by automated systems.

Companies need to continue to develop protection for VOIP users. At the save time, the users need to become less trusting and more knowledgeable about what to do with their information. Consumers should not give out private information (account numbers, passwords, and things of this nature) over the phone or over the internet.