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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 05 2015, @05:13PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 05 2015, @05:13PM (#153567)

    A honeypot isn't a filter. It is a misdirection and surveillance system. So the FTC says: "Robocalls bad", and everybody fails to consider that what their suggesting is dual use. Isn't that how the national do not call list got started?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 05 2015, @06:05PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 05 2015, @06:05PM (#153581)

    > everybody fails to consider that what their suggesting is dual use. Isn't that how the national do not call list got started?

    What, exactly, is this "dual use" for the do not call list?