SMS spoofing is certainly automated today. Stealing SMS messages, maybe less so.. but from what I hear the protocol is largely trust based, so it's unclear tha

SMS spoofing is certainly automated today. Stealing SMS messages, maybe less so.. but from what I hear the protocol is largely trust based, so it's unclear that it couldn't be. That said, eventually telcoms will be forced to fix this. I'm just guessing it'll take another decade or two.. it's not like robocalls were trivially fixed when they became annoying.