While wireless carriers and phone manufacturers make inroads in security, an Arizona court has found a creative way to make inroads against text message spam. An appellate court in the land of scorching pavement has ruled that bans on auto-dialers for cell phone solicitation also applies to text message spam.

It is a good thing my carrier quit the practice already!

Funny that China is a communist country, and yet all I ever hear is how rich everyone over there is getting. Maybe it is the massive flow of capital leaving the US, or maybe it is just that spammers have opted out of wired email punishment, and gone directly to mobile spam.

The Chinese are on track to send roughly 300 billion SMS messages this year. It is no wonder the sleaze has already found its way in.