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If I may, let me apply your comment to something else: 50% of phone calls made each day in the US are fake robocalls, that’s reflective of the phone system as

• jsjohnst 8y ago
  > 50% of phone calls made each day in the US are fake robocalls, that’s reflective of the phone system as a whole, wouldn’t you say? Yes, it is reflective of the phone system. If the phone system had appropriate safe guards to prevent faking of ANI data and other abuse prevention mechanisms, robocalling wouldn’t be an issue. I’ll leave it to others to decide if you picked a bad analogy or if you just proved the point of GP, I’ve got no skin in that game and don’t care.
• bduerst 8y ago
  >50% of phone calls made each day in the US are fake robocalls, that’s reflective of the phone system as a whole, wouldn’t you say? Yes, I would! I think that deregulation has enabled the phone system to become a terrible system. That's not a good analogy if you were trying to prove the opposite.
• arcticbull 8y ago
  Oh absolutely. It’s because nobody uses phones anymore for calling each other, so the malicious use cases account for a massively disproportionate amount of network use. Just like Bitcoin. If the phone system keeps trending as it is, people will shut off service and it’ll eventually disappear.