February 22, 2007
Skype Promoting SPIT?
The term SPIT stands for Spam over Internet Telephony, which may or may not include vishing attempts. I've never noticed this until recently, but on the Share Skype blog, each person commenting on a post has their Skype id revealed, as well as their current online status.
On the one hand, it's kind of cool because you can click-to-call that commenter. On the other hand, a spambot can easily harvest the page and compile a list of Skypers for later SPIT/ vishing activities en masse. It's possible this feature has always been there, but I've never consciously noticed. How do you feel about this? Do you think it's a big deal or nothing to worry about?
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