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Something is not right with the general telephone system. That this can be going on without more being done about it. In the internet space, we have our email p
by mongol 3y ago
Something is not right with the general telephone system. That this can be going on without more being done about it. In the internet space, we have our email providers filtering spam for us. But nothing like this when you sign up for a phone number. I don't know why there is not fierce competition about it. It must have something to do with what is and is not allwed for a telephone operator.
- stickfigure 3y agoThe system was designed for a different age and doesn't include the same trust signals as email (which includes the actual email content). If the phone system was invented today (anyone can just dial any number and make ringing sounds in anyone's home!) we would consider it preposterous.
- mongol 3y agoThat's true, but the strange thing is it has hardly evolved from that. Why does not my phone operator allow me to set policies / firewalls in place, at their end? All such filtering now needs to happen in my actual phone.
- stickfigure 3y agoWhat's wrong with filtering in your phone? It's a much simpler solution, and has the advantage that your contact list doesn't need to be stored in a central location where it is freely available to employees, law enforcement, and hackers. What would the UI to the PBXes look like? Back in the 80s, what limited programming we could do was done by pressing numbers and the asterisk/pound key. Sometimes "flashing" the hook. If we're lucky, voice prompts. It was crap. So you want to add some sort of digital protocol between phones and PBXes (of countless different types) so that our contact lists and rules (like "don't ring for these numbers between 10pm and 8am") can be maintained by an insecure central authority? I think the technology branch we're on is better. It's certainly more personally empowering.