OK, I just got my first spam with embedded audio, and I know we’re going to see a lot more of these.
I’m really torn about this. Spam and the resulting over-zealous filters have made email a less reliable mechanism for contacting someone, and phishing has made email useless as a contact medium between companies and consumers about important matters. Embedded audio is the most annoying thing yet, and might be the final nail in the coffin (at least until Mail.App has an option to turn the damn things off like they do images).
On the other hand, I want to send clips from moantones.com to all my friends. Maybe I could get away with it if I called it activism, spreading awareness of the problem, etc.
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