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The nightmare case for whitelisting is an emergency call from or on behalf of your spouse or child using a stranger's phone. This is why I don't want a whitelis
by nathan_long 8y ago
The nightmare case for whitelisting is an emergency call from or on behalf of your spouse or child using a stranger's phone. This is why I don't want a whitelist.
What I want is for spammers specifically to be identifiable and blockable, or for their business to be made prohibitively expensive. I didn't get spam calls on my cell phone 15 years ago, and as you say, what has changed is largely economics. Why can't we work to adjust the economics back?
- neuralRiot 8y agoI only answer calls from contacts, i ran into this scenario a few weeks ago, my wife lost her phone and wanted to contact me to locate it with "find my iphone" she just text me from her coworker's phone, no problem at all.
- Scoundreller 8y agoSounds like some next century level “how to track anyone”. Just send an SMS from a random (non-spoofed) phone number, ask to do a “find my iPhone.”
- neuralRiot 8y agoYeah, that would sound suspicious but she just let me know that she was calling from a diferent number.
- ilikehurdles 8y agoI treat my phone as if it’s on a whitelist anyway. I can’t imagine how people do otherwise. If it’s an unknown number, I reject it. If they leave a voicemail, I’ll get notified and I’ll check it pretty soon after the call. Every day I get no less than two unwanted calls from scams and robocallers. I don’t have time for that.
- nathan_long 8y agoI do that, too. But I didn't always have to, and I shouldn't have to, that's my point.