This article I dug up at the Guardian newspaper talks about being able to simulate the voice of any person saying anything and being completely believable and scientifically indistinguishable from the real thing.
The author suggests:
"This gives rise to a notion of what I call vocal terrorism as a possible scenario in the future and we should be thinking about that now[...] it could be that I've taken over a communications network for a country and I broadcast the sound of a leader to the people"
The more you go forward in time, the more you trip up over the same old stories it seems. For example, did you know that hacking the phone system had something of a cachet in the geek circles of the middle of last century, with telephone hackers - or phreakers - mimicking the dialtones to get free calls off the network of the time, the phone? This apparently included Steve Jobs and pal Wozniak selling homemade devices in their dorm that would allow free calls off the phone network, and used the cash to build the first Apple computer. Definitely not advisable stuff for schoolkids... ahem.
So now we are looking at social engineering plus phreaking, basically. "Social phreaking", anybody? I'm sure that soon mobile social phreaking, or mosophre, will be the next buzzword in marketing circles of the end of the 00s. And could, by accident of course, breed some of the entrepreneurs of the 2020s.
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