maybe i'm old but i always thought 'smishing' was a sort of synesthetic onomatopoeia, a gitaigo if you will, of a 90s furry babe pressing their tits upon another person or thing

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maybe i'm old but i always thought 'smishing' was a sort of synesthetic onomatopoeia, a gitaigo if you will, of a 90s furry babe pressing their tits upon another person or thing
I've also heard "vishing" referring to a voice call scam
Much like historians, infosec types are terrible at naming things
tangentially, that wikipedia article has shed some more light for me onto the phenomenon you see in translated manga of little words off to the side ancillary to the dialog. or how jojos get some floating characters next to them when they Walk with Purpose