Media don't stop trying to criminalize VoIP

It seems that media don't stop trying to criminalize VoIP. The most manipulated newspaper of the world,  New York Times,  tried again to make using VoIP looks like a crime or a terrorist behavior.

We from the OpenSource and Open Communications communities want to expose our feelings with a short sentence: "Shut Up!".

We are completely tired of your excuses for market manipulation in favor of Carriers Monopoly.

Ignored Facts:

• Basically you can by a prepaid SIM Card without ANY identification and place calls worldwide for  less then 10 Dollars!
• Mobile and Landline Calls can be encrypted with simple software installed in your device.

The only reason that would make criminals use VoIP providers over pre-paid mobile is the price!

If they are right, lets enumerate all the elements related to a crime:

• Criminals usually eat fast-food,  as they don't have time to cook at home. Making MC Donald's the food supplier for criminals.
• Criminals uses Ford and GM Cars for Bomb Cars. Ford and GM is manufacturing bombs with 4 wheels.
• Criminals use sunglasses to disguise themselves, making RayBan a "camouflage" provider.
• Criminals uses Windows, as they usually use Cyber Cafes computers equipped with this "criminal friendly" Operational System.
• Criminals buys ammunition and weapons from the same manufactures that provides them to the police and military. WAIT THIS ONE IS NOT A JOKE! 

Where are the attacks to weapon and ammo manufactures in the News?

Jingle Nodes in Practice - Sea Beyond

Jingle Nodes will have a experimenting session and a presentation on Sea Beyond, which is a new technical event that explores the future of real-time communication technology. It is organized by ProcessOne, an authority in XMPP and real-time communication software.


During the development sandbox portion of the event, we will have coding sessions of:

• Adding Jingle Nodes Services to an ejabberd server
• Placing Jingle Calls using the created service

For the presentation session, I will be showing what is XMPP Jingle and how it is dropping the Voice Over IP complexity, making XMPP Multi-Media Sessions a reality.


The first Sea Beyond event will take place on December 17, 2009 in Paris, France, from 9:30. The formal program will conclude at 19:00, but will be followed by an opportunity to share a drink and talk with other guests and speakers.

Yet About Your Freedom

The hype of having everything through mashup services, has a big impact in your freedom. Which most of the time is overwhelmed by Internet mass.

Using the "great" argument of not having to setup or create an account, sounds very nice in a first analysis, as it might seen that you are not getting another service to be attached to.
Well, it turns out that this is not true, first because you are probably exposing the information and account settings from the previous service to the new server, the only difference is that you don't need to do that manually.
But what really makes it really worst, is the attachment factor, that is created on interdependent services like applications inside facebook, orkut, twitter etc...
Once you are using a service that depends and requires other, and this service is really important for you, it attaches you extending you level of dependency through the overhead of being stuck sometimes with services that you no longer need, or never needed.

Think before getting attached to interdependent services. Make also sure the level of account exposure is really defined in a proper and clear way, as most of these integrations are not clear at all about account exposure among different services.

XMPP can support your freedom by exposing all these services through a protocol, which does the integration in a open and defined method, making you able to choose and define dependencies and exposure of your data.
In that sense you might even start your services through Google Wave, and later decide to stop and provide through your own XMPP network. Or even having Intranet services integrated in a safe and limited network.

Powering your freedom!