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I also believe that this feature has been somewhat deprecated since there is no authentication involved in caller ID at all. That resulted in cold callers camo
by ThePadawan 9y ago
I also believe that this feature has been somewhat deprecated since there is no authentication involved in caller ID at all.
That resulted in cold callers camouflaging themselves using either suppressed or incorrect phone numbers, reducing the value of called ID to zero.
It's equivalent to someone shouting through your door "Open up, this is the police". You would not do that without a chain or peephole, either.
- raldi 9y agoThe value wasn’t zero; even with spoofing, there’s a big difference between “this unknown caller is camouflaging their name to something I don’t recognize” vs “Oh, it’s the dry cleaners; I’d better pick up.”