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In my area, it's more like 10-20, day. Many scammers. Occasionally, once per half-hour from the same robo-caller (I have to have my carrier block them). Most people don't answser their phones anymore until they here who it is (if unless it the common hang-up caller).
With the fake credentials and spoofing of other (real people) numbers, there's no solution in sight. Unless I find out where there based - and then . . .
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keep them talking for an hour and then claim "not interested" and smirk about how pissed off they get... 
(I tried it and it seems to work)
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Yeah. When I get one of these calls (about three times a day) I press 1 to talk to a representative and then put the phone aside and let them cry feebly for my attention for a while. Alternatively, just as they start talking, I say, "Hang on a minute, I have a call on the other line." and then put them on hold until they hang up.
I see it as a public service to use up their time so as to reduce the instance of them bothering someone else. I have unlimited minutes and few genuine calls so it isn't any bother for me.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I had a hangup call to my cell, the number was local so I called it back. The person who answered was a private investigator who said he didn't call me, but said he'd had a rash of similar calls, his business phone number was being spoofed by some business. He asked if I would note the next time I got a call from that number and try to talk the person who called. So I saved the number as a contact, That Private Eye, nothing for a good while and then I got a call, the ID said That Private Eye. I answered and found out it was "Card Member Services". Told the rep that they were spoofing a legitimate business. The rep couldn't believe that I was calling him out on it and that I would help a stranger, started throwing out ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) and ![Sunshine | [little ray of sunshine]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/sunshine.gif) language at me.
Hung up and let the PI know who was using his number.
But then I play with the "Windows Help Desk" calls too.
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The only way I've discovered to get off these call lists is to be sexually explicitly rude to them, every single time. What happens is your number will get flagged as obnoxious and as they sell their lists back and forth you will over time start receiving fewer and fewer calls.
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I've tried that - said some things most foul - usually a hangup. On occasion, they even made such comments back.
For the scammers - if I answer (and press 1 to talk to an agent) I very politely explain to them that the world would really be a better place if they died. They spend their time hurting people, so without them, things would be better. If they're still there, I'll add, 'so I mean it with all sincerity, please do the world a favor and die'.
Odd - I've amazingly good control over the spammers, aside from the ones that hijack an email list and send those stupid 2-line messaged with the link. But on the phone, they just don't seem to take the hint.
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Quite true. I live in the US, and get these robocalls and spammers almost everyday, sometimes more than once per day. They spoof the number - even got a call once from my own number!
I set the bad calling numbers to be blocked on my personal and work cell phones (I do not use a home phone).
I'd love for the appropriate Federal authority to have a couple of "special ops" teams comprised of former Marines to track down, arrest, and swiftly bring to trial some of these perps. But, that takes Congressional action, which means anything that affects campaign donations by these spammers won't happen. 
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That's not very secure  I always encrypt mine with BASE64.
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They may have updated to UTF-32 by now, for increased security 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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"Our passwords are now 4x stronger than ever before!"
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I think it is only "personally identifiable information". I can't see that a password would be classed as such.
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No, any information; but not "for free". They may ask for a fee 
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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The idea of wanting a fee begs a question. And I'm sure the King and Queen of the EU will address this in short order:
If they can charge you for your own information, should they also pay you for it, as in royalties, when they use it?
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W∴ Balboos wrote: If they can charge you for your own information, should they also pay you for it, as in royalties, when they use it?
No, because you do not own the copyright on data they collect, nor could you copyright that information since it is not considered an original piece of work.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I've always considered myself an original piece of work! ![Java | [Coffee]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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You are a colony of copies of the original piece of work 
We all started as single cell-organisms, that grew by dupliciting the original cell.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: piece of work.
I've often been called a real 'piece of work'. So where's my money?
And what about the young ladies, who being gypped out of the full title, are just considered a "real piece" ?
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W∴ Balboos wrote: I've often been called a real 'piece of work'. So where's my money?
Your pieces cannot be copyrighted; you have no claim to money.
W∴ Balboos wrote: And what about the young ladies, who being gypped out of the full title, are just considered a "real piece" ?
It has to be an original "work", not a real piece. Any pawn from the chessboard is a real piece, unless you are playing Battle Chess. In that case the pieces are virtual.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Only if the amount of disclosure requests is considered "excessive", or the requests are repeadetdly unfounded, a fee may be incurred or service refused (Article 12, section 5)
This is simply to prevent blatant misuse of the right
As for passwords, it's not listed that it has to be disclosed... (Article 13 and 15)
GDPR HTML version: L_2016119EN.01000101.xml[^]
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You'd be surprised how many do offer personally identifiable information.
I once worked for some people who kept their users' passwords in unencrypted form. Aside from the sadly inevitable "password5"s and "pa55w0rd123"s the number of "DaveSmith1974" type entries was a real eye-opener.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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I do sometimes wish I was useless enough to code our systems with a form a reversible password, it would be fun to look at some of the choices people make.
I wonder if Dave Smith is 44, or if that's just the number of times his company's password policy made him change his password 
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Even for a reversible password, the encryption engine can incorporate the password into its own encryption (decryption). Given the attempt at the password, it can still use it for the comparison.
This makes compromising one key is less of a disaster, as it doesn't compromise them all.
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Does it apply to the government too?
Then it would be a good law. Like that would ever happen.
I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended.
I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended.
Freedom doesn't mean the absence of things you don't like.
Dave
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Haven't thought of that before, but thanks for the headsup!
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