Comment by ranger_danger
1 year ago
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.
> STIR/SHAKEN is already required for VOIP providers
I'm not convinced that STIR/SHAKEN even works properly. Recently, I migrated a DID from one VOIP provider to another. I set the outbound caller ID on the new provider, and it was showing up Verified with a checkmark to mobile devices before I had even submitted the port request to the old provider.
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perhaps, but the alternative is that whatever doesn't support it, just cannot be admissable as evidence anymore.