Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Mobile spam isn't that tasty


Did you know that an average mobile or cell phone user in China receives 8.29 spam messages per week?

No neither did I but that's because hedgehogs don't need mobile phones, we have an intricate communication system far more advanced than human telecommunications.

Anyway, according to Ji Won Yoon (University of Oxford), Hyoungshick Kim
(University of Cambridge) and Jun Ho Huh (University of Oxford) in their paper Hybrid Spam Filtering for Mobile Communication, spam text messages is "prevalent in Korea, Japan and China" and is "prone to spread across countries where mobile communication is popular".

Their proposal for a hybrid system will be worth consideration by telecommunication giants however I am sure it will end up costing humans in the end

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