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Isn't this what the FCC is for? Can't they require providers to update their standards for the public?

It would be interesting if they could implement a system where you could dial (555-555-5555) or something after receiving a robocall, which would log your last received call as being fraudulent and flag it for providers to shadow ban it. Would that work for spoofing caller ID?




https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/contests/robocalls-humanity-...

The FTC had a competition called "Robocalls, Humanity Strikes Back" and two guys implemented a very similar idea.

Hopefully the FTC will follow through and make this widely available.


Wow, that's actually really cool. Interesting to see the FTC getting involved with the community like that.


>For the second year in a row, the FTC traveled to DEF CON

Bloody hell, for some reason this sentence just fills me with glee. I'm not even American, but it's so good to see government agencies get involved like this.


For reference, you can currently make a complaint to the FTC on this site https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/#crnt&panel1-1


Someone at FTC apparently did not grasp the concept of hierarchical domain system. That URL looks like a phishing attempt.


That's a great suggest, I would love to see this. That's how it should work. Just like the flag button on this website. If enough people "flag" a number then it gets effectively disabled.

As you say, it would have to happen at the FCC level as individual telephone networks don't actually know for real where a call originated from.


Whitepages caller Id app for Android does this. But it only blocks rather than reporting to fcc.


Wouldn't that be subject to caller ID spoofing? For example we get calls from randomly generated local area code numbers (according to caller ID) but they actually originate out of state.


It works fairly well -- it identifies +75% of spammers correctly and I believe it hasn't made a false positive yet:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.webascende...


Unfortunately, not available for all devices. That is incredibly weird, any idea why that might be the case?

I'd definitely like to use an app like this, and couldn't find any info via searching as to why it's not available on all devices.




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