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0 pointsoctatrack1y ago0 comments

Better yet, don’t answer unknown phone calls.

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> unknown phone calls

This is my biggest gripe against the telecom industry. Calls pretending to be from someone else.

For every single call, someone somewhere must know at least the next link in the chain to connect a call. Keep following the chain until you find someone who either through malice or by looking the other way allows someone to spoof someone else's number AND remove their ability to send the current link in the chain (or anyone) messages. (Ideally also send them to prison if they are in the same country.) It shouldn't be that hard, right?

mabster1y ago

Companies have complex telecoms but generally want the outside as one company number. Solution, the sender send a packet with the number they should get perceived as. Everyone sends this on. Everyone "looks the other way" by design haha

mschuster911y ago

So what, gate that feature behind a check that you can only set an outgoing caller ID belonging to a number range that you own.

The technology to build trustable caller ID has existed for a long time, the problem is no one wants to be the one forcing telcos all over the world to upgrade their sometimes many decades old systems.

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