On Tuesday morning, Formella stepped up to a podium and announced the calls came from Life Corporation and Walter Monk of Texas.

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    Not sure how hard it would be, but if it’s possible the FCC really needs to get telecom companies to secure their systems to prevent number spoofing.

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        Signature-based Handling of Asserted information using toKENs.

        They really wanted that acronym to sound cool. To be fair SBHAIUT doesn’t sound as good.

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          The name was inspired by Ian Fleming’s character James Bond, who famously prefers his martinis “shaken, not stirred”. STIR having existed already, the creators of SHAKEN “tortured the English language until [they] came up with an acronym.”

          Maria Hill: Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement, and Logistics Division. And what does that mean to you?

          Ward: It means someone really wanted our initials to spell S.H.I.E.L.D.

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      Sadly it became annoyingly complicated and manual with number porting. Previously you could have just implemented “we own these blocks, this isn’t in our block, drop the call” but with number porting there are a lot of one offs to track. Not saying they shouldn’t do it, but number portability screwed with things.

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          It’s not even that many numbers when the entire list could fit in memory on a modest computer.