Phreeli won’t, at least, offer a platform for spammers and robocallers, Merrill says. Even without knowing users’ identities, he says the company will block that kind of bad behavior by limiting how many calls and texts users are allowed, and banning users who appear to be gaming the system. “If people think this is going to be a safe haven for abusing the phone network, that’s not going to work,” Merrill says.
Comment on A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code
CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Fuck this. Enough spam as it is. Tie every fucking line on the planet to an id.
sqgl@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Lol port blocking, truly a high-tech spam stopper
bus_factor@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You realize that the spam is not coming from the actual line owning the number, right? They can spoof the number, so they could make it look like it came from any number. If they put some effort into researching you, they could make the spam look like it came from your mom.
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Amusingly I got a spam call last week that came up on caller ID as “Obama 2012”.
thejml@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
A few years ago I got a spam call from my own number. Who would fall for that?!
Tayb@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I actually got a spam call from myself once. They spoofed my own number. Got a bunch of followup calls, voicemails, and texts for a month or so after that.
CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yes. We need authentication and authorization at both levels.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Lol, we can’t even get ISPs to not pass traffic from their networks with source IPs they don’t even fucking own. Getting telcos (more often than not the same people) to spend money on a new technology is going to be difficult when they refuse to update a goddamned router config.