Over on TechDirt, Carlo has discovered the joys of international phone spam. Yup, callers from India, China, Malaysia, and Africa are using cheap VoIP to route around the do not call list, and harrass you (without fear of retribution) during dinner time. In fact, just the other night (at 2:30 in the morning) I was disturbed by a caller from Africa while asleep in a hotel.
Washington’s army of bureaucrats can’t deal with this threat. It’s outside their jurisdiction. The solution? Technology. Legislation is just the beginning.
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
