Dear Friends,
I’ve been informed that my radio piece on mobile text message spam will air on Morning Edition today (March 17)!
It will be available on any of these stations (and their Internet streams).
New York – 5 am to 9 am Eastern – WNYC – 820 AM – www.wnyc.org
Washington, DC – 5 am to 10 am Eastern – WAMU – 88.5 FM – www.wamu.org
Los Angeles – 2 am to 9 am Pacific – KPCC – 89.3 FM – www.kpcc.opg
Boston – 6 am to 9 am Eastern – WGBH – 89.7 FM – www.wgbh.org
San Francisco – 3 am to 9 am Pacific – KQED – 88.5 FM – www.kqed.org
It will also be archived at npr.org and at my site if you miss it.
Lemme know if you hear it!
Update: Audio is here!
Hello.
I listened to your report twice on Monday regarding cell phone spam or spim!
I have a lot of knowledge in the spam area. each month we process over 1
million pieces of spam sent to us by ordinary users.
My father and I run a well respected project where users forward their spam to
us to analyze (technically dissect) and if confirmed as spam, we process the
advertized site for administrative shutdown and report to users the progress status &
results. Our approach is to eliminate the benefit of spammers by enforcement
rather than email prevention. The former works – since 2005 we’ve shut down
55,000 fraudulent websites pushing dangerous products and scams.
We think the process would work on spim as well.
My associates & I would love to chat with you regarding your report &
insights in the cell phone area. Also there is a real story in the existing
motivations of the spam/spim industry and a nefarious evolution of spam that
is just the leaping off point of spim. The dollars at stake are in the billions
and growing rapidly. We think it was a very fine piece of reporting, valuable,
timely, and important. So thanks – hope we can talk sometime.
Regards, Garth Bruen