Mark, I agree.

It's a good point that being able to block incoming calls is a
dangerous functionality ...

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On Sep 10, 8:48 am, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote:
> Roman ( T-Mobile USA) wrote:
>
> > There are several similar threads about this on the forum. It seems
> > like you can block incoming calls using what is available on SDK/NDK
> > level. For example the application Panda firewall gives you the
> > functionality to block an incoming call. I have not had time yet to
> > find out how they are doing this. No idea whether they are using the
> > unofficial way ... Mark, tell us the secret :-)
>
> If I'm the "Mark" in question, I don't know the secret. Again, AFAIK,
> there is no officially supported way to do this.
>
> Every now and then, I'll talk about undocumented approaches, but I try
> to limit that to things that are non-critical (e.g., how to change the
> looks of tabs in TabWidget). Blocking incoming phone calls...even if I
> knew how to do it, I would not be discussing it on an open list like
> this. After all, malware might exploit this capability to block all
> incoming calls, or random incoming calls, or something.
>
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