[VOIPSEC] Company Will Monitor Phone Calls to Tailor Ads

[Jim Van Meggelen]

Get everybody to find a recording of Monty Python's spam song and feed it
into the input. 

Reverse spamming.


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Jim Van Meggelen
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gary madsen wrote:
> Scary:
> 
> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/24/business/media/24adcol.html?
> _r=1&oref=slogin 
> 
> "Pudding Media, a start-up based in San Jose, Calif., is
> introducing an Internet phone service today that will be
> supported by advertising related to what people are talking
> about in their calls. The Web-based phone service is similar
> to Skype's online service - consumers plug a headset and a
> microphone into their computers, dial any phone number and
> chat away. But unlike Internet phone services that charge by
> the length of the calls, Pudding Media offers calling without
> any toll charges.
> 
> The trade-off is that Pudding Media is eavesdropping on phone
> calls in order to display ads on the screen that are related
> to the conversation. Voice recognition software monitors the
> calls, selects ads based on what it hears and pushes the ads
> to the subscriber's computer screen while he or she is still talking."
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Gary
> 
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