[Cryptography] Creepy correlation noted

[Henry Baker]

At 05:24 PM 7/11/2017, Ray Dillinger wrote:
>From: Ray Dillinger <bear at sonic.net>
>
>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?

Actually, it's even more creepy than I described:

I screen ALL of my calls.

Almost no messages are left on my answering machine when I'm not here;
messages are almost always left on my answering machine when I'm here.

So unless someone across the street is reporting my presence in real
time, I'm pretty sure that my ISP is the culprit.

Re "donut call list": I suspect the only reason for the existence of
this list is to gather *known good numbers* for politicians themselves
to call, as they have (surprise, surprise!) exempted themselves from
"do not" part of the "do not call" list.

The politicians have also *timed out* the "donut call list", so that
unless you keep adding yourself back on the list, you'll eventually
be flooded with calls.  Note that this is perhaps one of the 0.001%
of regulations that actually time out; nearly every other regulation
since 1776 still appears to be in effect.