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Re:Voice Phishing Scams Are Getting More Clever by ghaff on Monday October 01, 2018 @04:13PM (#18116396)
I don't know the end game here. It's easy to say that phone calls as a medium just slides into oblivion and this all becomes academic. But I don't really believe that. There's a real and continuing place for voice conversations and that requires someone to initiate a call.

Eliminating spoofing is probably impossible without infrastructure revamps that aren't realistic even augmenting with spam filtering at the telco level. But the current situation is at the edge of the tolerable and people will just stop letting calls ring through.

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Re:Voice Phishing Scams Are Getting More Clever by CodeCube on Monday October 01, 2018 @04:32PM (#18116569)
If the implementation of voice calls over the traditional networks do not improve (as you suggest, via improvements and regulations), then people will route around it. My kids only call me via FaceTime ... and the only way they communicate with their friends with voice is either facetime, or by sending videos of them talking over snapchat.

Obviously, my kids (and their friends/school) are only one data point ... but yeah, for them, it's already dead.

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