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I swear to god I've heard that the telemarketer/robocaller problem is finally solved like ten times over the course of my life.
You build a 10 foot high wall, they will build an 11 foot ladder. Stir/shaken was good for like 6 months before spam callers were able to bypass that security measure.
If only the phone system in the US, like the rest of the modern world, had robust authentication. It’s all a bit hacked together, much like the solution.
I've been saying for years now that providers should try converting to cert based auth. You get issued a cert with a private key from the provider. You are the only one who can use that number and authenticate to the network with that number.
STIR/SHAKEN had yet to be fully implemented, so while most carriers are now signing calls, almost none are taking action against unsigned calls.
I have hope that it will become a useful tool in the future for blocking spam and even bad carriers who are signing anything and everything.
It will be solved when scientists finally release a new revolutionary kind of battery.
This one uses semi-litho oscillating iron cores, but essentially amounts to a fancy capacitor with some extra bells and whistles.
Now this one is the most promising to take on lithium ion. It's just a giant water wheel. You find a nearby source of swiftly flowing water and it has more battery life than even a nuclear power plant!
This is just a rock, but our scientists are hopeful it can produce a discharge rate faster than an atomic bomb.
None are even close to viable, but they will suck up millions in investor money. Invest today! /s
And let’s not talk about clickbait articles from BuzzFeed and other places.
Nah, you also have to wait until there are equitable food distribution instead of payments to destroy “surplus.”
It can be solved with robocallers honeypots
The one good thing that W did was the do not call registry, that worked for a while at least.
Also then became the best phone number list for scammers
Need to figure out a way to go after posters soliciting this kind of coders in the USA on rentacoder sites, but then there’s the poor coders from other countries who will do it for a few cents on the dollar.
Yeah, same. I'll fuckin' believe it when I see it. Can't tell you how many times I have people tell me about the national do-not-call list as if I haven't been on it already for a decade and scammers and spammers don't respect it anyway and are unpunished for ignoring it.