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This is nice and perhaps actually useful for going after international organized criminals...but still doesn't prevent anything. We need actual authentication f
by avivo 7y ago
This is nice and perhaps actually useful for going after international organized criminals...but still doesn't prevent anything. We need actual authentication for Caller ID. Urgently.
Fake voices are already being used to steal millions (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48908736 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48908736). I co-authored the paper linked here, which goes into some detail about why this all matters, particularly for voice cloning... https://medium.com/@aviv/reducing-malicious-use-of-synthetic-media-research-9def6ab81aaf https://medium.com/@aviv/reducing-malicious-use-of-synthetic...
- SilasX 7y agoHm, I almost feel like it's the spam problem all over again where the appropriate fixes involve tradeoffs that many (not me though) find unacceptable, and we need to adapt the famous spam solution forum letter: https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt (I just came up with a version for robocalls but I don't want to post it here because it's a giant wall of text that I don't think pays for itself in terms of contribution to the discussion.)
- GauntletWizard 7y agoPastebin it.
- SilasX 7y agohttps://pastebin.com/0htfZWQD https://pastebin.com/0htfZWQD
- deelowe 7y agoWe just need a way to hold carriers accountable. Once they start having to pay fines for unsolicited calls on their network, they find ways to fix the caller id issue pretty quickly.
- mgleason_3 7y agoIt’s about time. Now if the FCC would get off it’s chair and implement a technical solution to mandate Caller verification... It’s incredible in a world were we’re all being forced to move to RealIDs so our every move can be tracked, that criminals can continue to scam the elderly and disabled anonymously by phone.