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> no incoming phone call can ever be trusted. They can't. And they haven't been for a while. Spoofing phone calls is simply too easy, and nothing is being done
by numbsafari 2y ago
> no incoming phone call can ever be trusted.
They can't. And they haven't been for a while. Spoofing phone calls is simply too easy, and nothing is being done to fix that, despite the fact that it puts so many of us at risk. It's not an insurmountable problem, technologically. It is literally a lack of will and outcry from ordinary people, despite how often this fact is used to abuse so many.
Credit Card companies have known this for a long time. My credit card company will call and say "do not call back to this number, call the number on the back of your card and use this reference number".
That should absolutely be the norm at this point.
- BobaFloutist 2y agoTelecoms know if a number is spoofed or not. All I want is for them to wholesale steal the original Twitter "verified" check, and use it to confirm that a call is not spoofed.
- School-Cotton 2y agoMy iPhone (on Verizon) already does this.
- HeatrayEnjoyer 2y agoThe originating provider knows, but do providers downstream know? If AT&T receives a call from $MadagascarPhoneCorp who indicates the call is officially from $IndiaPhoneCorp, can AT&T trust that?
- BobaFloutist 2y ago>The STIR system aims to add information to the SIP headers that allow the endpoints along the system to positively identify the origin of the data. This does not directly prevent the ability for a robocaller to spoof a caller ID, but it does allow upstream points to decide whether or not to trust that ID https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STIR/SHAKEN#STIR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STIR/SHAKEN#STIR It's not all the way there, I guess.
- jrib 2y agoThey should also display something indicating it is not verified when it is not
- numbsafari 2y agoI don’t need a “verified” tag. No spoofed call should ever get through. Ever. When would I ever want a spoofed caller ID? Never.