{"id":2601,"date":"2004-09-26T08:34:13","date_gmt":"2004-09-26T12:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/09\/26\/is-your-cellphone-full-of-spit-yet\/"},"modified":"2004-09-26T08:34:13","modified_gmt":"2004-09-26T12:34:13","slug":"is-your-cellphone-full-of-spit-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/09\/26\/is-your-cellphone-full-of-spit-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Your Cellphone Full of Spit Yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a3887'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"537\">\n<p align=\"left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/spittt.gif\" width=\"242\" height=\"198\" align=\"left\">Not content with having converted email into<br \/>\n        a wasteland and a cruel scavanger hunt (the Dowbrigade somehow list an<br \/>\n        entire class&#8217; emails down some junk drain last week), filling up blogs<br \/>\n        with bogus comments shilling the same tired scams as spam, and more recently<br \/>\n        Spim. unsolicited commercial Instant Messages (the kid who bags our grocery<br \/>\n        now has a doctorate from the Sorbonne and looks<br \/>\n        like<br \/>\n        he stuck<br \/>\n        a kielbasa down his pants), these mercenary bastards are moving on to<br \/>\n        the latest iteration of out-of-control capitalism &#8211; Spit, or Spam over<br \/>\n        Internet Telephony.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">&quot;our voice-mail boxes could become clogged with salacious<br \/>\n          and bogus advertising messages, just like our email inboxes are today.<br \/>\n          And denial-of-service attacks launched by armies of automated &quot;spam-bots&quot;<br \/>\n        could tie up targeted customers&#8217; phone lines constantly&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/news\/news.jsp?id=ns99996445\">from<br \/>\n          New Scientist<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not content with having converted email into a wasteland and a cruel scavanger hunt (the Dowbrigade somehow list an entire class&#8217; emails down some junk drain last week), filling up blogs with bogus comments shilling the same tired scams as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/09\/26\/is-your-cellphone-full-of-spit-yet\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}