NOW READ THIS
("Security Advisory")
Submitted by: Bill Hickey
NCVA List Master
NRT-0346 SPIT Filter:
After email became a popular means of communication, it did not take long for
marketers to start bombarding people with unwanted and unsolicited messages.
Today, this unwanted email, or "spam", is the bane of many users' inboxes,
even though numerous programs and techniques are available for combating it.
Now that internet phone calls are becoming popular, brace yourselves for
another problem - internet telephony spam, or "spit". However, the German
industrial giant Siemens is ahead of the game and has come up with a way to
filter out unwanted spit. The idea is to keep a list of known spitters and,
when an incoming call is received, have the receiving computer search for the
caller's name or number on the spit list. If the computer finds a match, the
call is rejected.
(New Scientist 26NOV07)