Voip Spam! (SPIT) Oh Yeah baby!

[Nickatilynx]

RSA 2005 We're all learning to live with spam but an even more annoying nuisance lies just around the corner. Spit (Spam over internet telephony) is set to become the next pervasive medium for scammers, penis pill purveyors and the rest.

Internet telephony means cheaper phone calls, a great prospect for consumers and businesses alike. It also means that advertising messages can be sent out for next to nothing. And history shows that spammers will take advantage of any broadcast medium available to them, according to Bruce Schneier, chief technology officer at Counterpane Internet Security.

Spit has the potential to fill people's voicemail in-boxes with junk, he says. "Once you get to the point where you have 10 unsolicited commercial voicemail messages every time you log on people will stop using it or at least only accept calls from people on their white list."

Schneier thinks it will be difficult to weed out Spit messages, but some security vendors are considering defence mechanisms. According to David Thomason, director of security engineering at network security firm Sourcefire, Spit messages would likely have a pattern. Junk calls matching that pattern could be blocked in much the same way malign data traffic can be discarded providing filtering technologies were deployed on the network Spit messages are sent from, he said. ®

[RyanLanane]

Phone Spam blocker programs and virus protection here we come.

Just saw the first phone with broadband connectivity on a T.V. commercial last week. Can't remember who put it out but it looked pretty damn aswesome. Took pictures, video with audio, etc ... Pretty sure it is the first broadband enabled phone anyways.

[Mr Benn]

This sounds like fun.

Don't know much about taking signatures from audio data, but there's lots of opportunity for filters to be applied (amongst other things) to audio data which will change the waveform without affecting the end sound too much. Think it would be extremely difficult to block messages based on content if the right techniques were used by the senders.

[swank]

Originally posted by RyanLanane@Feb 17 2005, 08:48 AM
Phone Spam blocker programs and virus protection here we come.

Just saw the first phone with broadband connectivity on a T.V. commercial last week. Can't remember who put it out but it looked pretty damn aswesome. Took pictures, video with audio, etc ... Pretty sure it is the first broadband enabled phone anyways.

3g technology has been out for a little while now. Services such as sprint and verizon have already been offering it. Unfortunately its lacking alot of improvement as the boasted speeds, accessibiltiy, and reliability are definately not as advertised. Ive used my cellphone as a wireless modem to connect my laptop for quite sometime with the 3g services, im lucky to get 150kb/sec transfers. The majority of the time it ranges from 30kb to 90kb/sec, (typical 2.5g speeds), and this is via trying 3 different phones and being just a block from a tower. I was just reading in the latest edition of Info World that 3g speeds have boosted quite impressively lately. Verizon boasting, "broadband" speeds that are actually living up.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/03/04/...1.html?WIRELESS

Along with all of this just like pc's i guess we can now expect wireless viruses. <_<

Viruses now striking wireless devices-

http://www.infoworld.com/reports/SRairbornevirus.html

[Trev]

My new 3g phone on Orange is as close to broadband as you can get, excellent download speeds which is a plus after I've ran out of my free surfing time lol...

As for the spam to mobiles, this is just the next step... first I was getting spamed by text messages (sms) and now I get spam picture messages (mms) so spam direct to my voice mail is just the next logical step...