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FTC to Award $25,000 for the Best Honeypot Design to Trap Robocalls

posted by mrcoolbp on Thursday March 05 2015, @10:46AM   Printer-friendly
from the flies-with-honey dept.

n1 writes:

Ars Technica reports:

On Wednesday, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced another contest to design a system to "identify unwanted robocalls received on landlines or mobile phones, and block and forward those calls to a honeypot." The agency will select "up to five contestants" as part of what it’s calling "Robocalls: Humanity Strikes Back."

The first qualifying phase launches Wednesday and runs through June 15, 2015 at 10:00pm Eastern Time, while the final phase concludes at DEF CON 23 on August 9, 2015.

Here's the FTC contest page. There's another similar contest (with no cash prize) being held "as part of the National Day of Civic Hacking." It appears they have done something similar in previous years as well.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Thexalon on Thursday March 05 2015, @08:48PM

    by Thexalon (636) on Thursday March 05 2015, @08:48PM (#153647)

    Most robocalls aren't advertising or promotions of legitimate services, but scam artists of various kinds. The FTC has caught a few people, most notably one of the organizations responsible for "Rachel from Cardholder Services" [consumeraffairs.com].

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  • (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Friday March 06 2015, @02:52AM

    by NotSanguine (285) <{NotSanguine} {at} {SoylentNews.Org}> on Friday March 06 2015, @02:52AM (#153703) Homepage Journal

    Most robocalls aren't advertising or promotions of legitimate services, but scam artists of various kinds. The FTC has caught a few people, most notably one of the organizations responsible for "Rachel from Cardholder Services".

    Funny that. I get calls from group(s) engaged in an identical scam just about every day.

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