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Spit Will Be Worse Than Spam
KentuckyFC writes "A team of German computer scientists has developed a program that reproduces all the known forms of spit (spam over internet telephony) attack. Their plan is to make the spitting software available to computer security experts wanting to test antispit strategies. Developing these won't be easy. There are various antispit techniques, such as white lists that allow only calls from predetermined callers, Turing tests such as audio CAPTCHAs that make a caller prove he or she is human and payment-at-risk services where the caller makes a small payment in advance and is refunded immediately if the receiver acknowledges the call as legitimate. But all have weaknesses, say the researchers. The main difference between junk calls and junk email is that the email arrives at your mail server before you access it. This gives the server time to analyze its content and filter out the junk before it gets to you. Not so with internet telephony, which is why radically different strategies are needed."
The name leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
(Sorry.)
Developers: We can use your help.
Spam? Spit? What's next? Spam in Everday Reading Material?
"I'm getting sick of the SPERM in the morning paper."
Those who believe the Internet is private,
find their privates are on the Internet.
Ans SPAN contain enlarged organs! hmm I sense some sort of Soylent green thing going on.
Soylent green: Tastes different from person to person.
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Dad,
Your son at college asking for money is not a "spam bot."
-Jim
(Disclaimer: That was not a jibe at Hillary. I actually got a call from a real live person working for the Hillary campaign when my state's primaries were looming. She just started talking, so I actually thought she was a recording. I was joking with my wife about "Hillary Clinton" showing up on the caller ID and said, "I told Hill not to call me at home! I wonder if Bill knows how much she calls me? I guess what's good for the goose..." That's when the lady said, "excuse me?" I then realized she was a real person.)
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Ah, what a utopia. A whole internet that doesn't know if you are a dog, but will quiz you to make sure you are not a robot construct, or some farmer in India.
Jim,
Get a "job".
-Dad
Back in high school, my friend's sister made a brilliant answering machine message. She made a recording of their normal answering machine message, which then became interrupted as if someone picked up the phone. There was a voice saying "Hello? Hello? Just a second the machine picked up..." while the original message kept playing in the background.
Yeah, and let's make bets while we're at it. Who'll get to the house first, the fire or the firemen?