Spam, Spim, Spit…Achtooey!

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First it was spam – the junk email we all know and love to hate.

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Then it was spim, which is spam sent by instant messenger (hence the “i m”).

Move over boys, and meet “spit”.

Spit is spam sent to a Voice Over IP (VoIP) connection, another name for which is “Internet telephony” (hence the “i t”).

And just as you are about to say “now I’ve heard everything”, you haven’t.

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AT&T has just announced today that they have developed technology to deal with ‘spit’, and they are calling it (wait for it)… “Spittoon”

Really.

(Now you’ve heard everything.)

According to AT&T Lab’s expert on Internet Security, Kevin Kealey, the new technology will be deployed at AT&T data centers “soon”.

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