Mike Rothman, the Pragmatic CSO, feels that McAfee is making a big Hullabaloo (my paraphrasing - with the obligatory apologies to any Hullabaloonians in the crowd) about Mobile Security Risk Management that nobody is likely to buy. I agree that there’s probably nobody to sell the idea to right now who has the money to do anything about it except the carrier networks. But as I understand it, once SPAM, SPLOG and SPIT become somewhat less easy to exploit (isn’t VISTA supposed to help there?), the perps will move on to the next easily exploitable medium. Just like war-dialers, what’s to stop them from sending SMS messages to all known or likely cell phone number ranges?

I expect to be getting a lot more of these annoying messages any day now. The carriers are the ones who are going to have to deal with the fallout before anything gets done to stop it. The latest SuperBowl ad from Rogers (Canadian carrier) touts “Fewer dropped calls”. Soon it may be “Fewer Mobile Spam (MoSPAM?) messages”.

Why won’t it happen? Let me know.