anti-robocall technology encouraged by FTC [telecom]

[HAncock4]

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported on new technologies that may stem
the onslaught of robocalls. The FTC is encouraging such
developments. Software that can filter calls through a combination of
"whitelists," "blacklists," and "graylists" featured prominently in
the results of the Federal Trade Commission's Robocall Challenge, a
$50,000 contest whose winners were announced today.

for full article please see:
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/consumer/FTC-names-winners-of-Robocall-Challenge.html

[Pete Cresswell]

Per HAncock4:

>
>for full article please see:
>http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/consumer/FTC-names-winners-of-Robocall-Challenge.html

Danis' does not seem to fully address the problem. The user's phone
still rings and the user still has to divert their attention away from
the task at hand.

Nomordobo seems the most promising - but it's probably going to involve
a monthly fee - and I don't see the diff between it's audio CAPTCHA and
a user-controlled challenge/response (something like "Press 1 for Sue,
press 2 for Dave, press 9 to connect" Where the "real" digit is buried
at the end of the prompt.... and there's a user-maintained white list so
frequent callers just ring through with no challenge.

Realistically, I'd expect us to be using whatever Google comes up
with...
--
Pete Cresswell

[Matt Simpson]

In article <3878m8dilu503bu8m...@4ax.com>,

Pete Cresswell <Pete...@invalid.telecom-digest.org> wrote:

> Realistically, I'd expect us to be using whatever Google comes up
> with...

Google is in the advertising business. I wouldn't expect them to invest
in anti-advertising technology.