terça-feira, março 01, 2005: SPIT

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Imagine that your company has just replaced its outdated phone system with an Internet telephone setup promising nifty features and big cost savings.

All of sudden, your office phones start ringing off the hook with prerecorded ads pitching hair tonics, imported drugs and penis enlargers.

Welcome! You've got ... SPIT!

Essentially junk mail in voice mail form, SPIT stands for spam over Internet telephony, according to Kevin Kealy, the computer security expert at AT&T Labs who coined the term. He says that SPIT, like its close relatives spam and SPIM (spam over instant message), takes advantage of technology's ability to quickly automate routine tasks at a negligible cost.

"With SPIT, some spammer can send out tens of thousands of unsolicited voice mails with the press of a button on some computer," Mr. Kealy says.
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Spam is bad enough, but now office phones produce SPIT - 2005-02-28 - Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal

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