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Spam and the like are going to ruin telecommunications like they've ruined email. It will be a slower process while they get bolder about skirting rules but the
by mutagen 11y ago
Spam and the like are going to ruin telecommunications like they've ruined email. It will be a slower process while they get bolder about skirting rules but they're going to get there.
Wait until these spammers and debt collectors get your social graph, your contact lists and the like, from failed mobile startups. You're going to start getting fake caller ID from friends and relatives.
The endgame is a balkanization of incompatible proprietary telecommunication clients all running you and your devices through a reverse Turing test to confirm legitimate communications. Oh, you'll still be able to get calls if you like, they'll all go to voicemail so your own neural networks can pick out the ones worthwhile to listen to.
- mrits 11y agoSeeing how 90% of my contacts are recruiters I don't know I'm not too worried about it.
- ghaff 11y agoI'm actually not all that concerned. Telemarketing has been going on for a very long time. That's what drove the do-not-call registry and related laws in the first place. I'm not saying what still exists (whether because of deliberate loopholes in the laws or simply breaking them) isn't annoying but it doesn't really seem to be getting worse either from personal experience or from the experience of others I speak with. I get very few junk calls on my cell--though why there isn't a "report junk call" button I don't know. Home gets a steady enough stream to be annoying (2 or 3 a day) but they're easy enough to ignore if I don't recognize the caller ID.
- Natanael_L 11y agoOr everything goes to mutually authenticated encrypted VoIP with whitelists. Like Signal.