Comment on FCC closing loophole that gave robocallers easy access to US phone numbers

be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Cheesus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You build a 10 foot high wall, they will build an 11 foot ladder. Stir/shaken was good for like 6 months before spam callers were able to bypass that security measure.

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  • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If only the phone system in the US, like the rest of the world, had robust authentication. It’s all a bit jacked together, like the solution.

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    • USSEthernet@startrek.website ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve been saying for years now that providers should try converting to cert based auth. You get issued a cert with a private key from the provider. You are the only one who can use that number and authenticate to the network with that number.

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  • stealthnerd@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    STIR/SHAKEN had yet to be fully implemented, so while most carriers are now signing calls, almost none are taking action against unsigned calls.

    I have hope that it will become a useful tool in the future for blocking spam and even bad carriers who are signing anything and everything.

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• LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It will be solved when scientists finally release a new revolutionary kind of battery.

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  • chuckleslord@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This one uses semi-litho oscillating iron cores, but essentially amounts to a fancy capacitor with some extra bells and whistles.

    Now this one is the most promising to take on lithium ion. It’s just a giant water wheel. You find a nearby source of swiftly flowing water and it has more battery life than even a nuclear power plant!

    This is just a rock, but our scientists are hopeful it can produce a discharge rate faster than an atomic bomb.

    None are even close to viable, but they will suck up millions in investor money. Invest today! /s

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    • LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And let’s not talk about clickbait articles from BuzzFeed and other places.

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  • Maeve@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nah, you also have to wait until there are equitable food distribution instead of payments to destroy “surplus.”

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• uis@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It can be solved with robocallers honeypots

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• BigilusDickilus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The one good thing that W did was the do not call registry, that worked for a while at least.

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  • psud@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Also then became the best phone number list for scammers

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• Maeve@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Need to figure out a way to go after posters soliciting this kind of coders in the USA on rentacoder sites, but then there’s the poor coders from other countries who will do it for a few cents on the dollar.

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• Furbag@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, same. I’ll fuckin’ believe it when I see it. Can’t tell you how many times I have people tell me about the national do-not-call list as if I haven’t been on it already for a decade and scammers and spammers don’t respect it anyway and are unpunished for ignoring it.

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