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FTC To Trap Robocallers With Open Source Software

Posted by Soulskill on 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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  1. Really? by Scutter · · Score: 5, Interesting

    'Rachel From Cardholder Services,' was a large robocall scam the agency took out in 2012.

    Are you sure about that? Because I still get calls from Rachel and friends several times per week.

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