The FCC order will take effect 30 days after it’s published in the Federal Register. A public draft of the order was released ahead of the FCC meeting.
So bad actors have at least 30 days to pull as much data as they can right now. People who keep their existing phone numbers may very well still be targets of robocalls because a database can be compiled right now, if it hasn’t already happened. And unless you change your number and your new number is a currently unassigned number, you could still be targeted, since the number is in a list of phone numbers; your new number just wouldn’t be listed as assigned to you. So maybe 10-15% of the people who change their phone numbers will be OK?
be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social 7 months ago
I swear to god I've heard that the telemarketer/robocaller problem is finally solved like ten times over the course of my life.
Cheesus@lemmy.world 7 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.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 7 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.
stealthnerd@lemmy.world 7 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.
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It will be solved when scientists finally release a new revolutionary kind of battery.
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 7 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
Maeve@kbin.social 7 months ago
Nah, you also have to wait until there are equitable food distribution instead of payments to destroy “surplus.”
uis@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It can be solved with robocallers honeypots
BigilusDickilus@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The one good thing that W did was the do not call registry, that worked for a while at least.
psud@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Also then became the best phone number list for scammers
Maeve@kbin.social 7 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.
Furbag@lemmy.world 7 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.