FTC to award $25,000 for the best honeypot design to trap robocalls

On Wednesday, the Federal Trade Commission announced another contest to design a system to “identify unwanted robocalls received on landlines or mobile phones, and block and forward those calls to a honeypot.”

The agency will select “up to five contestants” as part of what it’s calling “Robocalls: Humanity Strikes Back.”

The first qualifying phase launches Wednesday and runs through June 15, 2015 at 10:00pm Eastern Time, while the final phase concludes at DEF CON 23 on August 9, 2015.

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