[Cryptography] Creepy correlation noted

[Ray Dillinger]

On 07/11/2017 05:02 PM, Henry Baker wrote:

> I've been noticing a creepy correlation between *spam phone calls* on my wireline phone and my working at my home computer.
....
> I've noticed this because I don't receive such junk calls on my answering machine when I'm not at home working on my computer.

Pretty sure you'll get spamcalls at home and not on voicemail whether
there is any bandwidth use or not, because the spamcallers detect when
they are being connected to a voicemail system and autohangup before it
takes any kind of a message.

There is no need to suspect your ISP of being an accomplice in this one;
there are plenty of other things to suspect them for already.

Is the only result of the "do not call list" that they outsource it
to a boiler room in a different jurisdiction where the callers aren't
technically breaking the law, or do they just plain ignore it?

				Bear

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