Spam message event, Mas not guilty

Wen/Shen Chi's CCTV reports in recent days have made Mas, a word unfamiliar to most of its operator's employees, a hot spot all of a sudden. Unfortunately, it was linked to spam messages this time. In CCTV reports, Mas is directly classified as the accomplice of spam message, and pseudo base station, SMS mass device in the same breath, it seems, because the word spam, another operator's good business will be "stigmatized", or even premature. So, what is the sanctity of MAS? MAS is the abbreviation of Mobile Proxy Server (Mobileagentserver), first appeared in 2006 years. Its first position is to assist the enterprise's original business system, wireless applications to achieve access. By deploying the MAS server on the client side, we can assist the enterprise and customers to extend the internal application and business to the mobile terminal, and realize the wireless application such as notification, office approval and so on by SMS, MMS, WAP and other mobile data modes. In short, the user at the ATM to pick up money, received the bank reminder SMS, by plane, received the early boarding pass message, send a courier, the other side signed, received confirmation message ... These are typical applications of MAS. It can be said that in many key areas, such as government, finance, industrial manufacturing, electric business logistics, and people's livelihood, Mas has become one of the core business functions of process tracking, and has played an important role in many emergency events, crisis management and Warning Bulletin of major disasters. There is no doubt that MAS can be regarded as the leading advanced mobile internet era of innovative business, is the product of technological evolution and progress. So why would mas and spam messages become "brothers"? Good intentions do not necessarily have good results. You remember, operators have launched the disaster relief communications costs, to support the number of disaster areas to the value of the move? At that time, this rapid measures, was "smart" use, with a large number of cards to the disaster area, received a lot of free phone calls, and then reselling. So, what is a spam message? Generally speaking, the user receives the mass text message roughly can divide into four kinds: first, public welfare, such as government announcements, traffic reminders, weather warning, and other public services, such as banks, airlines or operators to send notification information; Third, business, such as various discounts, real estate, training information, four is obscene, violence, fraud and other illegal information. Among them, the first two types of mass text messages are normal text messages, for the fourth category of illegal information, the government and operators have been resolutely hit. But the type and quantity of the third type of information, is not a spam message, in fact, often depends on the user's own screening-useful is good information, no use or more annoying, it becomes junk information. At the same time, without infringing the user's information privacy, the interception and control of such information is also the most difficult. So, since the beginning of the 2004, now, there is no authoritative department to give a "spam message" authoritative standards, it is too complicated. So what does Mas have to do with spam messages? Texting is just a function of MAS. In theory, customers buyMas business, using the SMS channel provided by MAS to send messages, as long as not violate the law, what to send, is the customer's own decision; If the client has violated the content of the law, it is up to the court to decide. What does this have to do with Mas? Can send a lot of text messaging, can send text more technology also went to, if the MAS guilty, then the message is guilty, if the message is guilty, then all the SMS system should be all offline. Such logic cannot withstand scrutiny. Mas is denied and criticized, and is responsible for the crimes it should not bear. Mas or text messages, are just a technology, harmless technology, harm from? From the hands of those who used the technology illegally. There are some illegal use of MAS, operators are not wrong? Must have, at least not managed well. With the heart of the theory, the current operators are really more and more garbage message management, the truth is very simple, if more junk text messages, users annoying, will naturally turn the net to someone else's home. But, for the user, no matter what you do, I will only see the results, the result of the fact that I was affected, is your responsibility. So, in the face of CCTV and user accusations, operators can only admit mistakes, correct. But we do not want to see a situation is, in the face of complex problems, the face of the surging of the accountability, will be all added to a normal, even important business, even simply "brandished from the palace", the business will be stopped off directly. This has been a precedent. In the past, as well as worrying about spam messages, operators abandoned SMS advertising systems that were considered big data opportunities and could even really improve the messaging environment and customer experience, and some operators even shut down cell messaging. If you want to say, the root of spam message is that the low cost of SMS, and even some technical loopholes, for commercial advertising to provide a large number of direct access to users. Therefore, if we want to treat the specimen, we need the security Department, the industry Supervision Department, operators and users together, the report, the self-examination of the self-examination, the punishment of the penalty, the technology out of the technology, the hands of the staff, the common purification of the environment, at the same time plugging into sparse, leading the market demand to lower costs, management more standardized channels, can be solved. But no matter how, it must not be shirking to the business, shirking to the technology. At least for spam messages, Mas is not guilty.