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by Ivy on December 25, 2006

In his article Seltzer ponders over the possible impact of this form of spam, the ways it could be used and what should be done, since the first instances of SPIT have already been documented in Japan:
"In many VOIP networks, such as Skype, calling from one user to another is free. The economics are too inviting for spammers to ignore.
It's not hard to imagine different sorts of attacks that could be perpetrated, especially in combination with a voice response system.
To begin, the spammers could harvest phone numbers the same way they harvest e-mail addresses, but they don't have to. They can just buy online phone books complete with names and addresses."
Armed with such info, evil doers could easily perform frauds, DoS attacks and also generate new spam bots.
But, you haven't yet heard of the worst thing: There is no legislation whatsoever to prohibit caller ID spoofing, data forging and leaving tons of unsolicited voice messages on someone's software answering machine. Oh yes, and there are no anti-spit spam programs yet, and no one really knows how could VoIP communications be secured against SPIT.
So, the brave new digital world is awaiting another spam menace, on top of the unsolicited e-mail, spam fax and cell phone spam messaging.
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conedude13
(12/29/06 2:11pm)
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Ivy
(12/30/06 11:14pm)
I guess that the lady did a major mistake in letting you know that, as I presume it is a business secret. Anyhows, all of the providers do too little to protect their users from malicious e-mails, calls and messages.
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one thing that bugs me about vonage is that there is no type of call id block. like if there is a number that is calling me and shows no name or number on the caller id. those are the type of phone calls i would like to block, but can't with vonage.