Explore a comprehensive survey of techniques against telephone spam in this 22-minute conference talk presented at the 2016 IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy. Delve into the telephone spam ecosystem, focusing on the differences between email and telephone spam. Examine existing telephone spam solutions and analyze their shortcomings to derive critical evaluation criteria for acceptable defenses. Gain insights into the $8.6 billion annual cost of telephone spam to U.S. consumers and the challenges posed by robocalls leveraging recent technical advances. Learn about the Federal Trade Commission's data on illegal and unwanted calls, and understand the importance of developing effective telephone spam defenses. Use this presentation as a guide for future defense development and as a framework for evaluating upcoming solutions in the fight against telephone spam.
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SoK: Everyone Hates Robocalls: A Survey of Techniques against Telephone Spam
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IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy