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So shift the burden of calling to literally everyone who is acting well? Why would I want to remember a unique PIN for everyone I know? Also, isn't that just t

• penagwin 8y ago
  Plus how would we share this "pin"? Maybe we could append it to the phone number, like "+1 (616) 281 - 2123#32343" - Oh wait, it's already a number, what's the point of adding more onto it? It would literally turn into the same system that we have, as you have to share the pin with everyone anyway.
  • Evidlo 8y ago
    It's different because then not every "number" will result in a call being placed. Determining whether a number is valid requires making a call, which ties up robocallers.
• escherplex 8y ago
  Bad actors exist and they're cleaver. Plus these days you don't have to remember anything. Adding an updatable PIN field to a personal call file in such an app coupled with a software protocol with a pop-up button labeled say 'PIN entry' which appears once a contact device answers (say, with a message enter PIN) that can transmit the PIN number would be sufficiently user-friendly for such an app. Better than receiving junk calls while waiting indefinitely for regulations with teeth from dysfunctional legislatures.
• cabalamat 8y ago
  You could have a Captcha to force that the person on the calling ewnd is a person and not a computer. That would increase the costs for telemarketeers. Or the system could ask for information that someone who knows the recipient might know but a telemarketeer might not know, e.g. "What is the 2nd letter of my first name?"
  • pavel_lishin 8y ago
    That still shifts the burden onto everyone else.