• Artyom@lemm.ee
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      It is absolutely a solved problem. All phone numbers have a paper trail, there are known lists of spam numbers, ergo you know the people responsible for it. If anyone in the FCC wasn’t getting filthy rich off of the current model, it would be trivial to block those numbers and prosecute those companies.

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      Marketing companies and phone carriers make a lot of money from it. Spam calls are a whole industry. Nobody has made a serious, major attempt to solve the problem because too many people are getting rich off of it.

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          This subtle (but important) distinction is what I’m talking about. STIR/SHAKEN is a plan, but it hasn’t been implemented. Plans are great, but if nobody ever carries them out, their mere existence doesn’t actually fix anything.

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        I actually think I’m on an internal “do not call this guy, he just wastes our time” list, cause I haven’t gotten a spam call in years.

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        1 year ago

        phone number/email aliases basically solve it, which I think apple provides?

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    verizon is actually doing a decent job with this. i’m down from 4-6 a day to 1 or so a week, and those few that get through are usually labeled ‘potential spam’. guessing that’s due to implementation of ‘stir/shaken’ cid verification.

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    I agree completely. I think this is one of those situations where people are saying similar things but in slightly different ways. Thanks for your patience!