something I just thought about with the voip-rbl. In order to protect as many people as possible from fraud through their networks, and to make administration as simple as possible, it should be totally open for anyone to view the records. However this also includes the people you are trying to block.
I wanted to state this as it may be of concern to some, however I do not believe it will be that big of a problem since email-RBLs operate the same way ... However with that said, a clever fraudster could scan the DB for numbers they know they can profit off calling but arent listed then make a massive play against them in a very short amount of time. This would be similar to the email spammers who will register new domain names (and let them go unused after no more than 3 days), get zombies, do whatever.. infact after one of the largest known zombie networks was taken down and the commander of that arrested many many of the 3 day spam domains suddenly halted (not all but a large percentage). people will always try to figure ways through a system, so you cant really rely on just one, however with email who just uses a RBL? who uses just a spam filter without looking up stuff from distributed databases? Most people use a combination of things, and perhaps this brings a marketing idea to light for someone who wants to write code (either free, support for a fee, or total commercial). Fraud analysis software, especially something that would integrate in realtime with asterisk (and possibly other platforms). I happen to know that there are many companies that already do this for the pbx world, I happen to have worked with one long ago in a galaxy far away (ok it was new jersey but still :) I know they were always busy, which implies that people were buying, so this may be a new product offering that someone could use to either get their name out there by way of free code or make money or in redhat style both. just a thought -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel Belfast IE +44 28 9099 6461 DE +49 801 777 555 3402 Utrecht NL +31 306 553058 US WA +1 360 207 0479 US NY +1 516 687 5200 FreeWorldDialup: 635378 http://www.trxtel.com we pay you to terminate calls with us!
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