Just last month [the FTC] announced the Robocall Challenge offering $50,000 to anyone who can create what the agency calls "an innovative way to block that will

Just last month [the FTC] announced the Robocall Challenge offering $50,000 to anyone who can create what the agency calls "an innovative way to block that will block illegal commercial robocalls on landlines and mobile phones." So the US government is using the phone system to track and to eavesdrop on everyone it cares to[1], but it can't figure out a way to use that power to, you know, actually enforce the laws concerning that same phone system. But somehow, they're going to catch terrorists that way. Sure. [1] http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2012/09/19/warrantless-wiretapping-was-far-more-involved-than-previously-known-new-book-says http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2012/09...