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My experience with Justin.tv has shown me there is a more dangerous kind of troll who will call the police on you, prank call at all hours of the night, make pr
by emmett 18y ago
My experience with Justin.tv has shown me there is a more dangerous kind of troll who will call the police on you, prank call at all hours of the night, make prank deliveries, etc.
These more dangerous trolls are mostly enabled by the weak security in our phone system, rather than the internet.
Actually, as I write this, I realize that the solution will not be laws (although I would certainly derive pleasure from seeing these people jailed).
The real solution will be VOIP; turning phones into the internet. When you can turn your phone into accept-whitelist-only with a click, mass prank calling will be stopped. When identity can be cryptographically determined, fake calls to pizza places or the police will be stopped.
So we don't actually need laws; we just need a secure phone system.
- shawndrost 18y agoWow, it would be fantastic to have your phone controlled by software. For one thing, you could apply the same kind of anti-spam techniques, and since there is a canonical phone number distributor, they would be even more effective.