[asterisk-biz] voip-rbl cont

[trixter aka Bret McDanel]

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

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