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Isn't the problem the FCC regulation prohibits carriers from taking serious action like blocking robocallers? How can this not be taken care of with gmail styl
by Zamicol 8y ago
Isn't the problem the FCC regulation prohibits carriers from taking serious action like blocking robocallers?
How can this not be taken care of with gmail style spam rules?
- olliej 8y agoThe fcc literally had a competition to identify to robocalls. It’s not trivial - gmail identifies spam by bayesian filtering coupled with the amount of duplicate spam sent to numerous different addresses. Identifying spam/robocalls requires being able to parse arbitrary spoken word. People keep thinking its a matter of blocking a number, but the reality is that the security of phone networks is laughably broken with respect to number and identity spoofing. It essentially renders the id useless for identifying spam