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SPIT - that is, SPam over Internet Telephony -- is the new buzzword for what could potentially happen if phone service over the Internet, commonly known as VoIP, takes off as expected.
It was hardly the big conversation topic at the VON conference in San Jose last week, where companies big and small were pitching their Voice over Internet Protocol technology and products. But when conversations at the show turned to security issues, the SPIT started flying. Not literally, of course. Jeffrey Citron, chairman and chief executive of Vonage, took questions after his keynote speech and was asked how he plans to address security issues with VoIP. Clearly, he wasn't going to share his security strategy so early.
``The great thing about security is that you don't have to tell everyone what you're doing,'' he responded. ``But we understand that SPIT is an issue.'' The issue is not only the potential for more telemarketing calls but also voicemail spam -- the thousands of unsolicited voice messages that a spammer could send to VoIP voicemail boxes with a simple click. So far, it's not a major problem. But as VoIP grows over the next few years, you can expect that ``spitters'' will be ready.
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