[VOIPSEC] Wikipedia page on SPIT/VoIP spam really needs some work...

[Dan York]

Jon,

On Apr 14, 2008, at 10:30 PM, Jon Callas wrote:
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> Go to Wikipedia and delete it.

DY> (laughing) Yes, that's one approach, but *someone* will re-create  
it and anyway I think there is value in having that page there.

> You're an expert in the field and

DY> I suppose many would consider me that way but I generally flee  
from the "expert" label... the reality is that as much as I may know,  
I also know how much there is still to be known.

> you can claim there's no basis to call unwanted calls over VOIP with  
> any cutesy name.

DY> Oh, wouldn't that be nice.... but I think the battle for "SPIT"  
has probably been lost (given that I'm now seeing webinars on the  
topic).  It's already out there in usage.  Many years ago I was one of  
those who was adamant that people should use "cracker" instead of  
"hacker" but that whole effort didn't work so well, eh?

> However, even better would be to add in a paragraph that is titled  
> "Cute Names for VOIP Spam" in which you mention both SPIT and VAM  
> and ridicule them both as being cutesy and non-canonical. This is  
> better because there's less chance that someone will follow you by  
> reinstating them.
>
> I've corrected a number of stupidities in Wikipedia this way.


DY> Entertaining idea.  :-)

Dan

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