Chinese police fight vandals with spam?

[vniow]

Can I be the poster girl?

Authorities in China are turning to technology to nab vandals--they use a computer program that spams the wrongdoers' mobile phones until they turn themselves in.

Officials in Hangzhou, the capital of China's Zhejiang province, have developed a system which bombards mobile phones with pre-recorded voice messages, according to the official newspaper, the People's Daily.

Businessmen who put up illegal advertisements which contain mobile numbers have become the target of the computerized phone-spammer.


According to the report, illegal stickers have become an eyesore in recent years, with China's coastal and urbanized areas blighted with a blizzard of advertisements.

This is because the postcard-sized stickers, which promote everything from fake identity cards to counterfeit academic certifications, are cheap to produce and offer some anonymity.

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-993822.html

 

[alset]

I don't know that I would ever turn myself in over something like this. I'd likely get a new phone.

Dan

 

[cb911]

he he

i reckon that's pretty funny. they would get so pissed off they'd have to get a new phone or something...

 

[topicolo]

Well, that lets the dumb people without cell phones get away. I demand equal opportunity spamming!

 

[Stelliform]

That reminds me of this flash about Bin Laden.