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I agree completely. I work for a small ISP and we sometimes do the same thing for significant bad actors abusing our network. A phone call to the NOC of the ISP
by EB66 7y ago
I agree completely. I work for a small ISP and we sometimes do the same thing for significant bad actors abusing our network. A phone call to the NOC of the ISP hosting the abuser or the NOC of their upstream transit providers usually gets the ball rolling pretty quickly.
That approach is obviously not very effective in a DDoS scenario, but as I understand it these robocalls typically originate from a handful of different VoIP termination services -- as opposed to tens of thousands of hosts in a DDoS scenario.
- Scoundreller 7y agoExactly. Creating a proactive system might be difficult, but the apparatus is all there for being reactive. Yet this has been going on for years, so I suspect shenanigans by providers too happy to continue charging their Tier7 peers for access.
- wpskidd 7y agoI think this a great challenge to propose to the HN crowd. Who wouldn’t pay for a system that truly eliminates the annoyance of spam calls? What about a private network that people could subscribe to that uses a decentralized social credit system? Or one that uses a monitoring gateway to track the number of calls originating from a number (either internal or external to the subscriber group), and treats mass callers with extreme prejudice. A blacklist of known spammers could be applied first as a default (rather than as an add-on app). If you wanted to get really creative, you could give subscribers the tools to add numbers to their own black list far more easily than they now can, and maybe even block whole geographic regions.
- dao- 7y ago> Who wouldn’t pay for a system that truly eliminates the annoyance of spam calls? Anyone in a region with sensible legislation.