A simple telephony honeypot received 1.5 million robocalls across 11 months

Tech | 207483 hits | Aug 15 7:48 am | Posted by: DrCaleb

In an award-winning paper presented at the USENIX security conference this week, a team of academics from North Carolina State University presented a list of findings from operating a massive telephony honeypot for 11 months for the sole purpose of tracki

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by DrCaleb
Sat Aug 15, 2020 2:53 pm
Only in North America do we have this problem. In Europe, cold calling for sales purposes is illegal.

Instead, we force telephone companies to find all sorts of technical work arounds to block them. Meanwhile, no one uses the phone any more because of robocalls.
by PluggyRug
Sat Aug 15, 2020 7:25 pm
I have a recording of the fax machine answer tones and play them back to robocalls. Seems to stop most.

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