FTC To Trap Robocallers With Open Source Software

Posted by Soulskill on Friday July 18, 2014 @09:56AM from the about-bloody-time dept.

coondoggie writes: The Federal Trade Commission today announced the rules for its second robocall exterminating challenge, known this time as Zapping Rachel Robocall Contest. 'Rachel From Cardholder Services,' was a large robocall scam the agency took out in 2012. The agency will be hosting a contest at next month's DEF CON security conference to build open-source methods to lure robocallers into honeypots and to predict which calls are robocalls. They'll be awarding cash prizes for the top solutions.

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Re:Was anyone sent to prison? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-07-18 11:50 · Score: 4, Funny

How horrifying it would be to wake in the hospital, and find out that you survived a terrible car crash, but they had to patch you up with a new liver, and now you are (scare chord) 10% TELEMARKETER!