FTC Awards $50k In Prizes To Cut Off Exasperating Robocalls

Posted by timothy on Tuesday April 2, 2013 @04:50AM from the award-the-perpetrators-jail-time dept.

coondoggie writes "The Federal Trade Commission today said it picked two winners out of nearly 800 entries for its $50,000 Robocall Challenge which dared technologists to come up with an innovative way of blocking the mostly illegal but abundant calls. According to the FTC, Serdar Danis and Aaron Foss will each receive $25,000 for their proposals, which both use software to intercept and filter out illegal prerecorded calls using technology to 'blacklist' robocaller phone numbers and 'whitelist' numbers associated with acceptable incoming calls." Can't wait until Symantec, Kaspersky, etc. sell competing anti-spammer packages for phones.

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Like the pirate VS the DRM wars.. by JoeBehymer · 2013-04-02 05:00 · Score: 0, Troll

So shall the dialer VS the anti-dialer war continue. My company makes an auto-dialer product used by a lot of these contact centers. We will just outsmart whatever technology sits between us and the callee. That said, some tech-savvy people may be able to beat us, but the general population won't.