Comment on FCC closing loophole that gave robocallers easy access to US phone numbers
Cheesus@lemmy.world 1 year agoYou 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.
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.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 1 year 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.
USSEthernet@startrek.website 11 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.