cryptographic signatures are going to have to start becoming necessary for all kinds of things, like even your average JPG image, otherwise nobody can tell what is "fake" or not, court evidence will start to become useless.
STIR/SHAKEN is already required for VOIP providers and intermediate carriers. The FCC is working it's way through the system to implement this, there is in fact a way but it takes a while.
Yes. Completely redesigning how phones work is exactly what we need. This problem is only going to get worse.
Well, that's a multi trillion dollar project that would involve every country in the world. Will never happen.
International calls are still expensive than national or state calls (the regular cellular ones, not the whatspap viber imo or internet ones).
consumers have an easier solution: they just don't answer the phone unless it's a someone they know.
This isn't a solution. I need to accept legitimate calls from numbers who've never called me before all the time.
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VOIP is decades old by now anyway. I’m perfectly capable of calling across the globe with various technologies that don’t need rotary phone technology
cryptographic signatures are going to have to start becoming necessary for all kinds of things, like even your average JPG image, otherwise nobody can tell what is "fake" or not, court evidence will start to become useless.
You'd have to completely redo the way telephony works. There is no way to enforce numbers or caller IDs.
STIR/SHAKEN is already required for VOIP providers and intermediate carriers. The FCC is working it's way through the system to implement this, there is in fact a way but it takes a while.
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perhaps, but the alternative is that whatever doesn't support it, just cannot be admissable as evidence anymore.