The Federal Trade Commission had its representatives in Las Vegas last week, at the DefCon hacking conference, where they set up a contest called Zapping Rachel for hackers to build a honeypot for attracting robocallers.
The Commission offered as much as $17,000 / 12,700 in cash prizes for those that managed to create the honeypot, attacking it and analyzing the data based on algorithms that can predict calls likely to be automated.
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