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> “Maintain a high level of vigilance and verify the legitimacy of CBO communications by confirming with the sender via telephone that they sent the message,” t
by neilv 1y ago
> “Maintain a high level of vigilance and verify the legitimacy of CBO communications by confirming with the sender via telephone that they sent the message,” the note continues.
Depends how sophisticated and incentivized the attacker, of course.
- dylan604 1y agoMan, and I thought government was inefficient before. Now, after every message they receive, they must then call the person to verify the message before responding. Which naturally means, they then must call you back to verify you sent the response. Electronic messaging was meant to do away with this phone tag scenario, yet now they want to ensure messaging is dependent on phone tag.
- terribleperson 1y agoSince it's obviously impractical, the procedure will be worked around or ignored 99% of the time. The phone logs will however allow for the picking of a convenient scapegoat in the wake of a future attack.
- dylan604 1y agoMan, if something ever needed group participation in malicious compliance, this would something I would nominate
- retrochameleon 1y agoIf only telecomms made any sense for the 25th century with easily verifiable sender identification, and it would block malicious, spoofed, and spam messages before they ever got to your phone in the first place.