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Kind of curious why it took so long. Spoofed calls for fraud, swatting, etc. have been around for at least ten years.
by ilamont 7y ago
Kind of curious why it took so long. Spoofed calls for fraud, swatting, etc. have been around for at least ten years.
- nsxwolf 7y agoLonger than that. As long as ISDN/T1 PRI lines have been around. A completely unhindered spoofing playground.
- closeparen 7y agoWhy it took so long to get all the participants in a federated network to adopt a new protocol? If that were easy we would have solved email spam too, 20 years ago.
- user5994461 7y agoand indeed gmail has fixed email spam for almost 20 years.
- unishark 7y agoSpam filtering is based on the content of email. To translate this (partial) success to phones, we'd have to let a private 3rd party monitor phone conversations, record them on its server indefinitely for training their AI, and screen them for us based on what the caller is actually saying to us.
- deadmutex 7y agoThe problem had gotten worse due to easily available tools used to automate the calls.
- tommoor 7y agoOnly in recent years has the FCC been inundated with complaints about it. Seems like there was a tipping point in volume the last couple of years
- gnopgnip 7y agoThere are three big issues. Robocalls and spam were not as severe an issue until relatively recently. Political robocalls in the US are an important part of how some politicians get elected and raise funds. And these solutions cost a non trivial amount of money, without increasing revenue directly.
- chefandy 7y agoWay more than 10 years. I saw a pretty in-depth demonstration on using this sort of spoofing for social engineering at H2K2, the 2600 HOPE conference in way back in 2002.