Issue
156 July 2003
Stealth
Telephone Screener
Mad
Dash for Flash Cash Grand Prize Winner
IN
MY DREAMS
After
several months of use, the Stealth Telephone Screener
has successfully blocked all but one of dozens of automated
calls, and not even one real human caller. The present
version of the hardware won’t work with an answering
machine, because the Screener would pick up first, and
it has no way to transfer the call to the machine. An
enhanced version could include a ringing generator instead
of the built-in speaker. This would allow a phone or
answering machine to ring normally after the call has
been screened.
I
have presented something to reduce some annoyance in
our lives. Someday, perhaps, enough people will use
screening devices to render telemarketing a thing of
the past—or so I can dream!
