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If I was magically in charge, I would make it so if you got an unwanted text or call you report it and the phone company has to pay you like $10.
They don't deal with this problem because they only care about profit.
Same with number spoofing. They own the network they can ensure the numbers are verified. Yes, there might be instance where another network connects that doesn't do verification, but all is needed is a way to signal the customer whether the number was verified or not.
Just preventing spoofing would be huge contribution as it would allow customers to have reliable blacklists.
There's legitimate uses of spoofing. If I need to make a work call from my cell phone, I don't want to share my number, so I use an app to send the call from my office number. If you work in a call center, you need the CID to point to a main line, not your desk phone. If you're working from home, you want to send the company's number - not yours. You don't necessarily want phone companies able to determine who can and cannot use CID spoofing, because they won't use it for good.
In fact - they've used it for evil in the past and are now actually prohibited from blocking spoofed CIDs. The Madison River Telephone company blocked Vonage back in the early aughts in what turned into one of the first big Net Neutrality cases when the FCC stepped in.
Essentially, they had been using the spoofed CID that's essenially a necessity of VOIP systems as an excuse to ban VOIP users from calling their customers. So the FCC ended up prohibiting telephone providers from from that practice.
But then what's the point to send that information at all is it is so unreliable?
I'm pretty sure any of those scenarios you provided could have solution that would still not compromise reliability.
For example if you are working for a specific company there could be a mechanism where company would give permission to identify as their number.
I mean right now, you can spoof the number of your company and I can spoof that number too and I don't work there, so what is the value of having that number in the first place when the recipient can't even trust it?
But if you leave that process in the hands of CLEC (telecom providers) they have a financial incentive to make the process impossible and expensive to drive customers away from cheaper alternatives like VOIP.
And the spoofing has become an endemic part of the system. Years ago, there was a separate system for phones, which is why phones kept working even when power an internet went out. That also meant the phone companies knew exactly where a call was coming from because the wire could be traced to its physical location and verified for CallerID. It was also accurate because all landlines were published unless you paid to be excluded.
But none of that is true anymore. Even when you make a call from most "landlines" these days, there's no actual landline phone system it's coming through. It's VOIP. And the same system that's used to identify your number can be used by anyone, and the phone company giving priority to certain carriers and customer as "trusted" while denying it to others raises net neutrality concerns.
It's the ongoing security vs freedom debate. You can't say the phone companies should block calls from unverified numbers while at the same time saying Google shouldn't block download of unverified apps.
Sure you can. There's a difference: Whether or not the owner of the handset requested the traffic.
A random APK from F-Droid isn't going to suddenly demand my attention while my phone is sitting on my desk with the screen off. An Indian man threatening to jail me if I don't mail him Amazon gift cards has and will again.
Lots of scams involve getting people to download unverified apks that are used by scammed. That's the nominal reason for Google's new bullshit.
Pretending restrictions are good for you is how these companies operate. Telecoms have been doing it for over a century. Why should we suddenly trust them to NOT be evil?
Im not sure i want the phone company to make the decision.
It should be more along the lines of all phone companies must take a deposit to open an account. Foreign and voip calls must be linked to a deposit for the phone company to be allowed to connect those calls. A call gets reported as spam, the $ come out of the deposit, if the deposit gets used up, theyre banned from calling until they reup their deposit.
Suddenly all it takes is a bunch of organized complaints to shut down any number.
I'd take the potential for brigading if it meant no more spam calls
jtrek for prez
Or at least FCC chairman.
This is technically how it already works except for the government gets the $10 instead of us
There's no enforcement on this though.
If I was in charge, all phones would be required to have a built-in taser. The recipient of a call should have a button they can press to tase the caller. This taser must be strong enough to seriously injure a human, like, burn ward you never hear out of that ear again strong enough, or strong enough to set any computer that phone is attached to on fire. Capital offense to remove or disable the taser from a phone.
That would solve the problem I think.
And suddenly swatting someone, to death, just became a lot easier.