Posts by grumpy-git

TalkTalk to block nuisance calls with no help AT ALL from Huawei

Re: "Is there a pre-filtering device that will sit between your phone and the wall socket"

well, I've been thinking much about something like this!

A device that counts say 10 'rings' of an incoming call before the bell (or other sounder) rings out appears to be a simple and good filter for these pests.

Now, not wishing to breach the rules about attaching non-approved electrical/electronic equipment directly to the Phone line, I'm trying to develop a 'ring tone' detector which uses the ring tone 25Hz current in the wires with some sort of 'clip-on' sensor.

Anyway, if these calls are answered, the telco collects it's fee and I really think they don't deserve this at all for permitting these calls in the first place.

+1 for all International call blocking as well as withheld numbers

Metasploit creator seeks crowd's help for vuln scanning

Resources?

perhaps if the project could run only at times when the screen saver is active then it may be of more interest.

Pre-assigned functions shouldn't be toooo hard to set up for download for running in the background when other applications are suspended for example with auto-uploads of data when given milestones are reached.

Seem to remember a Climate Change project using distributed crowd resources which did this, even though the actual project had errors... so not beyond the realms of the organisers to provide this option

Looks like a good idea in principle and I wish them luck