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IoT Home Inspector Challenge

In the first half of 2017, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) hosted a prize competition that challenged the public to create a technical solution, or tools, that consumers could use to guard against security vulnerabilities in software found on the Internet of Things (IoT) devices in their homes.

The FTC challenged the tech-savvy public to DetectaRobo. Contestants analyzed call data to create algorithms that could predict which calls were likely robocalls.