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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (25 children)

The FCC order will take effect 30 days after it's published in the Federal Register. A public draft of the order was released ahead of the FCC meeting.

So bad actors have at least 30 days to pull as much data as they can right now. People who keep their existing phone numbers may very well still be targets of robocalls because a database can be compiled right now, if it hasn't already happened. And unless you change your number and your new number is a currently unassigned number, you could still be targeted, since the number is in a list of phone numbers; your new number just wouldn't be listed as assigned to you. So maybe 10-15% of the people who change their phone numbers will be OK?

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (2 children)

these new rules have nothing to do with how the bad guys obtain targets' phone numbers, they're about how they get assigned phone numbers.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see you're new here. Nobody reads the articles

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought this would be like old reddit where that sort of thing would be buried. Nope lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When did people read the article on old reddit?

2004?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Last Nevuary, duh

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

It’s tangentially related so I can discuss it.

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