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> (eg. SS7) I don't have a lock on my mailbox. It is bad that the "low trust" internet overflows into my everyday life. I would rather that there was some sepa
by rightbyte 2y ago
> (eg. SS7)
I don't have a lock on my mailbox. It is bad that the "low trust" internet overflows into my everyday life. I would rather that there was some separation of telephone calls, local community and banking etc from the lawless voids, than normalizing all these scams.
Telephone scam calls are mostly an internet problem.
- thephyber 2y agoI don’t get how your anecdote relates to SS7. SS7 is available country-wide (I’m assuming it doesn’t directly cross national borders) and the surface area of all of the cell towers and data centers they connect to is very large. Even larger if you consider all of the software that runs on the devices that are legitimately connected to that network. This isn’t even remotely comparable to some fictional high trust small rural town where everyone knows everyone. I do have a lock on my mailbox, but it has to adhere to the USPS skeleton keys (which have been leaked and are exploited by thieves). Another example of bad design, or at least design that wasn’t able to withstand reasonably foreseeable changes to the operating environment.