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That's hilarious. You really think that everyone, or even many people, know that phone numbers can be spoofed?
by staticassertion 4y ago
That's hilarious. You really think that everyone, or even many people, know that phone numbers can be spoofed?
- giaour 4y agoYes. There have been multiple front-page news articles in the NY Times in the past month about people getting spam texts from themselves. The fact that caller ID is unreliable is part of the public discourse today. FWIW, I had to answer the phone at my first office job in ~2005, and the office manual has a section on how caller ID was not trustworthy caller authentication. None of this is new, and it is odd that a self-described security engineer would blindly trust caller ID.
- staticassertion 4y agoAwareness may have grown, but I'd put money on people at-large not knowing anything about caller ID spoofing, both in terms of its existence, and certainly in terms of its accessibility.
- tlogan 4y agoI think majority of older American is 100% aware of that. I do see how young adults are still not aware of that since they are not valuable target and their info is relatively unknown (no mortgage on their name, no car loans, cell phone number is not old, they never sign up for sweepstakes in Las Vegas, etc.)