Spit Will Be Worse Than Spam?? NOT!!!
Submitted by brian on Thu, 06/12/2008 - 09:44.
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I was reading this story over on Slashdot about how SPIT (spam over internet telephony) will be worse than SPAM. I find it hard to believe that will be the case. If you use software like FreeSWITCH to frontend all your phone calls it can give you the ability to knock out* the people you don't want to talk to in a heart beat.
What is your take on this?
* No you can't literally knock people out via telephone... yet!
I'm sure they will come up with something to stop it.
Spam has been relatively easy to assess, because it is text based. Even when the spam is little more than image files, there are still a lot of clues in the little text that is present.
Spit is audio, or maybe video. It is hard to analyse, and can be easily made different on each call, even if they are pushing recordings at you. It is hard to assess where it came from. Unless you want to blot out calls from anyone you haven't explicitly authorised, you have problems.
Unless tricky techniques come to light I thing the potential for streaming media based spam is huge........ Hey, huge potential. VCs, its time for Web 3.0!