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The author says that lots of measures were taken not to wake people up in the middle of the night, but that despite those efforts 3 people were. Wouldn't the mo
by therealcamino 5y ago
The author says that lots of measures were taken not to wake people up in the middle of the night, but that despite those efforts 3 people were. Wouldn't the most obvious method have been not to dial numbers at night local time?
- idiotsecant 5y agoIts very unlikely they didn't think of that. Not all humans attached to phone numbers reside in the physical area of the area code.
- mudita 5y ago"WarVOX spent 60 seconds on every call, whether it was answered or not. This resulted in a wardialing speed of 1 call/minute. For 56874 calls, this means roughly 40 days calling day and night." Seems like he did actually call at night times.
- mkr-hn 5y agoI think given their efforts to avoid calling people at their local night, it's safe to assume "day and night" refers to the caller's local night.
- burnished 5y agomy reading was that OP took efforts not to call people but still rang at all hours. I think your reading and assumption are mistaken.
- mkr-hn 5y agoIt's entirely possible.
- Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago56784 (calls) / 40 (days) = ~1422, round down to 1400 for 'easy math' 1400 / 24 (hours per day) = ~58 per hour (round up to 60) 60 / 60 (seconds) = 1 per minute so nope, he was hammering at it 24/7 (unless my maths is totally wrong which is always possible).
- swashboon 5y agonot all people only sleep at night.
- geoduck14 5y agoOh hey! I have experience with this! I used to analyze data for a call center. We had a law that prevented us from calling people at night. This is hard because of the following reasons: Zip codes and time zones don't align well (looking at you, West Florida!) Area codes and zip codes don't align well Area codes and time zones don't align well People move!
- wackro 5y agoThere is only one time zone in finland
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- flatline 5y agoBut that Finnish phone number could belong to someone in England.
- dagw 5y agoWho was vacationing in Thailand.
- PostThisTooFast 5y agoBut took a day trip to Australia.
- nonameiguess 5y agoArea codes mean little in the mobile phone era. Just tells you where a person lived when they were a teenager or otherwise first got their own phone.
- fps_doug 5y agoNot in Germany. The mobile network has distinct numbers. You can have a land line number mapped to a cellphone, but it's rare these days, don't know anybody who does this. It was popular back when calling cellphones was more expensive than land lines.
- halikular 5y agoBecause it will take much longer if you restrict calling time to the day.
- kzrdude 5y agoHe should have done it. He could have reserved just 8 hours for "night" to do the minimum, so he'd only use 50% more time then (still have 16 hours per day to make calls).
- wang_li 5y ago> The author says that lots of measures were taken not to wake people up in the middle of the night, but that despite those efforts 3 people were. It's pretty presumptuous to assume calling in the middle of the night is a problem as opposed to calling when people are asleep. Which could be any hour of the day. >Wouldn't the most obvious method have been not to dial numbers at night local time? There's a super obvious method to avoid all the issues. Don't robocall people at all. This person placed about 20k phone calls between 10pm and 6am. Whether someone answered or not, a ringing phone waking a person a significant intrusion. They also called people and recorded them without their consent. Here's an easy rule of thumb: in the absence of explicit informed consent don't experiment with other people's stuff. It's amazing that there are adults who don't understand this. Also, a brief search on the internet suggests Finland is a two party consent state for recording phone calls.