{"id":151,"date":"2008-10-07T17:13:51","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T22:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/07\/a-dishonest-move-i-wish-they-would-make\/"},"modified":"2008-10-07T17:17:16","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T22:17:16","slug":"a-dishonest-move-i-wish-they-would-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/07\/a-dishonest-move-i-wish-they-would-make\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dishonest Move I Wish They Would Make"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/10\/the_canadian_do.html\">Bruce Schneier has a great scheme I wish every dishonest company would follow<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Turns out you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lnnte-dncl.gc.ca\/\">add anyone&#8217;s number<\/a> &#8212; or remove anyone&#8217;s number &#8212; to\/from the Canadian do-not-call list. You can also add (but not remove) numbers to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donotcall.gov\/register\/reg.aspx\">U.S. do-not-call list<\/a>, though only up to three at a time, and you have to provide a valid e-mail address to confirm the addition.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my idea.  <strong>If you&#8217;re a company, add every one of your customers to the list.  That way, none of your competitors will be able to cold call them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Underhanded corporate shenanigans ending cold-calls once and for all would really make my day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Schneier has a great scheme I wish every dishonest company would follow, Turns out you can add anyone&#8217;s number &#8212; or remove anyone&#8217;s number &#8212; to\/from the Canadian do-not-call list. You can also add (but not remove) numbers to the U.S. do-not-call list, though only up to three at a time, and you have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,42],"tags":[200],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","category-security","tag-telemarketing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}