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Since I expect to sometimes get perfectly valid calls from numbers I've never communicated with in the past, I think a better solution would be to make the enti
by rootusrootus 4y ago
Since I expect to sometimes get perfectly valid calls from numbers I've never communicated with in the past, I think a better solution would be to make the entire PSTN a fully audited domain where we only let people participate after a reasonable amount of vetting, and we maintain the ability to accurately track down and stop bad actors when they do make it past those protections.
If we choose not to do that, at some point one of the big tech corporations will manage to get enough of a network going on their own proprietary equivalent service so that everyone else has to join or be left out. And PSTN will die. And we'll have a corporate overlord.
- unsignedint 4y agoI can see where you're coming from, and I agree that it would be ideal if the system were better audited. If that were the case, I wouldn't have much to complain about. However, I'm not sure if things are actually improving with PSTN. In fact, it seems like the situation is getting worse and worse. My frustration stems from my lack of trust in the system, especially considering the high level of noise to ratio in PSTN. To me, the calls don't hold much meaning anymore, and it's frustrating that I receive so many scam calls - maybe only 1 out of 50 calls are legitimate.