Lumpy, this is the same thing that the LaBrea honeypot did, in a TCP/IP manner, to automated scanners of our university network. We chuckled that some scanners held on for DAYS, essentially playing the "Uhh, are you still there?" "Sure--just a second, I'll be right back." game over and over on every possible TCP/IP port on a machine. It kept them busy so they wouldn't be scanning someone else. And, the reporting (for abuse lists, admins and sharing the blacklists) was automatic! It was named after the LaBrea tar pits in Los Angeles California.
Yeah. Know what the spammer would do? Leave the number of a 900- or 976- overseas service that bills $10-per-call. That would make much more money than the crappy crap they are selling. No shipping or products. Just selling a few seconds of phone time for $10. Ahhh, the profits just roll in...
Good idea for the phones, Stiletto! This is how SpamGourmet (a free service) already handles email.
The disposable, dynamically-generated addresses can optionally die after a specific number of received emails, and you can specify a single "trusted" sender for that address. If they or anyone else give out that address, it only works so long, then those emails stop. Now if we could just get authenticated information from the phone spammers, instead of blank or spoofed numbers, it might work.
Problem: Foreign switches originate the call (dial tone). Solution: Code donotcall.backdoor exploits into the switch firmware, or have Anonymous do it.
I searched Amazon for do not call and a few things came up. The $70 Call Blocker got 4/5 stars for the 22 people that bought one. The $120 discontinued TeleBouncer had a better technical functionality, and, reportedly is still available on eBay.
I might try that Call Blocker (after reading each of the reviews) or investigate running Asterisk on a Raspberry Pi.
Kinda of like the *57 Call Trace -- where you pay $1 for the privilege of reporting the annoying phone call to the phone company. Then they thank you for the $1 and silently delete the report.
In the US, you can dial *57 right after receiving a harassing or threatening phone call. Do it three times, and THEN you can file a complaint with the phone company. I think they may charge $1 for each Call Trace, to prevent [anti-abuse-]abuse, so it costs the consumer $3 to even *start* to file a complaint.
Of course, if there is no number, or just "OUT OF AREA", it doesn't help you identify any CID-spoofing company.
The free website spamgourmet.com lets you set up dynamically-created email addresses, given a base address, and protects your REAL address.
Create an address on the fly, and control how many emails you receive before the address goes dead (or not). No longer care about filling out those web forms--if they sell your email address, so? After 1-20 emails it will die off (or not, your choice). Even allow only ONE specific company or domain to send to that specific address: if the original company you gave it to sells it, any other (spammer) companies' emails never get through.
For example, supplying address in format
CompanyA.interview.somename@(insert one of a dozen domain aliases for spamgourmet.com here) creates the email address, and sets a default of between 1 and 20 emails to that address. Make it as easy or as sophisticated as you need.
I've given them small donations for years, as they've helped me avoid spam. Check 'em out.
We dropped cable years ago, in favor of a Roku settop box. One-time $80US purchase, and Netflix (which we already subscribed to) and Hulu+ (a few dollars a month). Adds up to maybe $15 more a month than Netflix DVDs-in-the-mail only. Without cable. Granted we are already paying $2/day for a 20Mbps Internet connection, but that's mostly paid for by a home business.
And after traveling several hundred light-years, the printer powers up, starts the warming cycle, loads the buffer with the first person, and promptly...jams.
But in order to protect the pre-security screening screen line, they'll need a pre-pre-security screening screen screen.
Oops--look out! The scanner's going recursive!
And I picture those chaps strolling by themselves into the saloon. You could call them Assange-less chaps. *ducks and runs out of the saloon to a fast horse*
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Lumpy, this is the same thing that the LaBrea honeypot did, in a TCP/IP manner, to automated scanners of our university network. We chuckled that some scanners held on for DAYS, essentially playing the "Uhh, are you still there?" "Sure--just a second, I'll be right back." game over and over on every possible TCP/IP port on a machine. It kept them busy so they wouldn't be scanning someone else. And, the reporting (for abuse lists, admins and sharing the blacklists) was automatic! It was named after the LaBrea tar pits in Los Angeles California.
But the voices in my head told me what you might have said...no, sorry, that was the TV.
Yeah. Know what the spammer would do? Leave the number of a 900- or 976- overseas service that bills $10-per-call. That would make much more money than the crappy crap they are selling. No shipping or products. Just selling a few seconds of phone time for $10. Ahhh, the profits just roll in...
Good idea for the phones, Stiletto! This is how SpamGourmet (a free service) already handles email.
The disposable, dynamically-generated addresses can optionally die after a specific number of received emails, and you can specify a single "trusted" sender for that address. If they or anyone else give out that address, it only works so long, then those emails stop. Now if we could just get authenticated information from the phone spammers, instead of blank or spoofed numbers, it might work.
Problem: Foreign switches originate the call (dial tone). Solution: Code donotcall.backdoor exploits into the switch firmware, or have Anonymous do it.
Political calls and charities are immune from the Do Not Call list.
Unlikely a politician would ever vote for a solution where their SuperPAC couldn't call and bother a constituent whenever it felt like it.
Publish the home phone numbers of the people who run robocall businesses.
And just how does one get the home phone numbers of overseas owners who hide behind foreign shell companies?
And for calls that originate overseas, the subscriber gets billed for that call-forward back to the caller? That doesn't sound like a good plan.
I searched Amazon for do not call and a few things came up. The $70 Call Blocker got 4/5 stars for the 22 people that bought one. The $120 discontinued TeleBouncer had a better technical functionality, and, reportedly is still available on eBay. I might try that Call Blocker (after reading each of the reviews) or investigate running Asterisk on a Raspberry Pi.
Weaselmancer, you aren't in a balloon, by any chance...?
Kinda of like the *57 Call Trace -- where you pay $1 for the privilege of reporting the annoying phone call to the phone company. Then they thank you for the $1 and silently delete the report.
geekoid, I think you are confusing "dot" Indians with "feather" Indians.
This sounds almost like how tor works.
In the US, you can dial *57 right after receiving a harassing or threatening phone call. Do it three times, and THEN you can file a complaint with the phone company. I think they may charge $1 for each Call Trace, to prevent [anti-abuse-]abuse, so it costs the consumer $3 to even *start* to file a complaint. Of course, if there is no number, or just "OUT OF AREA", it doesn't help you identify any CID-spoofing company.
Greetings, Mr. A. Coward from Anonymous Proxy. Your first class begins on...
They would if they were the grammer police.
You must mean Kelsey Grammer. Surely you aren't speaking about GRAMMAR, are you?
Create an address on the fly, and control how many emails you receive before the address goes dead (or not). No longer care about filling out those web forms--if they sell your email address, so? After 1-20 emails it will die off (or not, your choice). Even allow only ONE specific company or domain to send to that specific address: if the original company you gave it to sells it, any other (spammer) companies' emails never get through.
For example, supplying address in format CompanyA.interview.somename@(insert one of a dozen domain aliases for spamgourmet.com here) creates the email address, and sets a default of between 1 and 20 emails to that address. Make it as easy or as sophisticated as you need.
I've given them small donations for years, as they've helped me avoid spam. Check 'em out.
What, do you Live Under a Rock?
Garrett Morris: "OUR TOP STORY TONIGHT, IT'S AS DUMB AS A POST..."
We dropped cable years ago, in favor of a Roku settop box. One-time $80US purchase, and Netflix (which we already subscribed to) and Hulu+ (a few dollars a month). Adds up to maybe $15 more a month than Netflix DVDs-in-the-mail only. Without cable. Granted we are already paying $2/day for a 20Mbps Internet connection, but that's mostly paid for by a home business.
Pretty screeners? This is Slashdot. We'd be happy to have a pseudofemale humanoid biped (or triped or quadruped) grope our junk!
Relax...
What stops people from setting up tunnels into the worldwide internet?
How about an Iran-sized tinfoil hat?
And after traveling several hundred light-years, the printer powers up, starts the warming cycle, loads the buffer with the first person, and promptly...jams.
But in order to protect the pre-security screening screen line, they'll need a pre-pre-security screening screen screen. Oops--look out! The scanner's going recursive!
And I picture those chaps strolling by themselves into the saloon. You could call them Assange-less chaps. *ducks and runs out of the saloon to a fast horse*