Caller ID: Now As Useful as Warm SPIT

Yup, the bad guys are now using VoIP networks for VoIP phone-based scams. As the article explains, it's now easy to bypass the elaborate caller-ID fortresses many have built to protect themselves from the storm-window sales reps. And let's not forget the ID theft ramifications of spoofed caller IDs. All of this is known as SPIT, for "spam over Internet telephony". You will see this acronynm again, unfortunately.

Out on a Limb Predictions:

• In three years, SPIT will drive us to distraction like SPAM did in 2003.
• Importantly, SPIT will tarnish VoIP companies with regulators and politicians at precisely the time the VoIP players are looking for an unregulated rocket ship of growth.

Peter S> Kastner