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Dear phone companies: Please just give us originator information and block any calls that come from networks that don't have the proper attestation to give us o
by MiddleEndian 4y ago
Dear phone companies: Please just give us originator information and block any calls that come from networks that don't have the proper attestation to give us originator info.
Then we could just block calls adblock style.
- whaleofatw2022 4y agoThey don't want to do that, mostly because these spam callers are a source of revenue on some level.
- MiddleEndian 4y agoI will amend my previous request: Dear Congress/FCC/whoever, please legally require all phone companies operating in the United States to do this.
- cyanydeez 4y agoYou need a lobbiests license to do that, User
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- Uehreka 4y agoThat feels too easy, I have a feeling the answer is more complicated. I doubt the revenue from spammers is actually worth the reputational damage and annoyance.
- oceanplexian 4y agoTelephones don’t work that way. I used to work at a telco and if you think BGP is a joke wait till you lean about SS7. Anyone on the network can impersonate anything they want, there is no such thing as “attestation”. Maybe things have changed in recent times but in years past we could port an arbitrary phone number with a few button clicks in a phone switch. The only security is that it’s all highly proprietary and a limited number of people have access to it