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Regarding all the stories about this, with number spoofing and whatnot: With all this surveillance and tracking going on everywhere at every level, are telecom
by Razengan 6y ago
Regarding all the stories about this, with number spoofing and whatnot:
With all this surveillance and tracking going on everywhere at every level, are telecom companies seriously not able to see where someone is calling from??
- aerosmile 6y agoThe intuitive answer is - of course! But, as someone pointed out elsewhere, the technology stack really is 150 years old.
- SheinhardtWigCo 6y agoThey have never cared because there’s no profit in solving this problem.
- dvtrn 6y agoOf course there is, ever ran an enterprise PBX and had to pay your telco for toll fraud after an extension and DID pair gets pwned? This still happens even in VoIP and SIP stacks. Seen it first hand, one month, normal billing. Next month, $44,000k in fraudulent calls to and from Cape Town over an enterprise trunk thanks to a poorly configured ATA.
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoDefine "where someone is calling from". If the call is carried via VoIP, then all the phone company knows is who the VoIP provider is. The VoIP provider may know what account it is, but not who that is. Tracking it down to an actual human you can jail (or even sue) may not be easy.
- aerosmile 6y ago"Not easy, but technically possible" is a very fertile ground for a startup.