October 30, 2006
Phishing, Vishing, And Voshing?
While browsing Digg today, I stumbled across something called GabMail/ GabJam. If you have a webcam, you can record a video message and send it on to a friend. GabMail doesn't do the sending for you. They give you an URL which you can copy and pass on to a friend via email or whatever. The recipient just clicks on the link in their email, and a new browser window or tab pops up for replay. They can also "respond", but clicking on the "Reply to Message" button simply pops up a new GabMail window where your recipient can go through the same process.
The closest thing to integration with email readers is that some buttons/links cause an MS Outlook popup, with the link already included. This could be fun, but it needs more integration. It's certainly not video calling, like Skype and SightSpeed have. Fortunately, the way GabMail is set up, videos cannot be auto-generated by a spambot. However, someone could easily record themselves then feed the resulting GabMail URL to their spambot. Yuccch. Though I guess this possibility isn't exclusive to GabMail. You canot vish with it, but I guess you could "vosh" a whole bunch of people with a single videomail.
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