Net Phone Customers Brace For 'VoIP Spam'

XaviorPenguin writes "If you think that Spam in your e-mail inbox is bad, wait until VoIP gets huge! According to a News.CNet.com story, your voice mail box on your Net Phones may be cluttered with ads for Viagra. '"The fear with VoIP spam is you will have an Internet address for your phone number, which means you can use the same tools you use for e-mail to generate traffic," said Tom Kershaw, a vice president at security specialist VeriSign. "That raises automation to scary degrees."' If you think that is scary, you know the Do-Not-Call list that is out by the FTC, yeah, um, people with Net Phones may not be affected by this list and spammers/telemarketers may take this advantage for themselves. "

Comments

Re:The FCC cannot regulate the world.

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

The FCC cannot regulate the entire world - just the US.

You mean there are other countries where the guy who regulates the media doesn't have a brother in a government who lies shamelessly to its people and to the UN? Sounds marvellous...

Re:The FCC cannot regulate the world.

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

Micheal Powell, head of FCC, is Colin Powell's son not his brother.

Yes my bad, sorry. However, that doesn't change my point, which is that I don't like it at all that the head of the media regulation agency (a known de-regulator) and Bush's defense man (a known liar) being kin, and on top of that, Bush being good buddy with the corporations that own the media supposed to be regulated by the FCC.

There's way too much conflict of interest going on between corporate America, the militaro-industrial complex, the Saudis and the Bush administration...