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Apparently our building elevators have a communication system that can be dialed from outside, and since they are, well, elevators, they automatically pick up the call. Now some spammers have the elevator number and the elevators being robodialed with offers for timeshare vacations that can't be disconnected by the riders.

Taking the stairs, thanks.

@fobo Wow. I shook my head and physically covered my eyes with my hand trying to absorb the information. Who TF wrote that and thought it was a good idea?

@gemlog It's some pretty wild garbage system design.

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@fobo I'm trying hard to think of a use case frankly.
Now, i've actually written voice jail things from scratch and robo callers (Nice ones! for like volunteer firefighters or PTA meetings!), but I would never leave something wide open like that. That's insane.