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Re:Facebook won’t let you opt out of its phone number ‘look ... by StudentStuff on Monday March 04, 2019 @12:05AM (#19298925)
I think VOIP has great untapped potential for this, having helped many people get vanity numbers with their name embedded. Once the job hunt is over, you can literally reject all calls, and build a caller ID blacklist of spammy companies and recruiters. Plus, numbers are 1/4th to 1/10th the cost of domains these days.
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Re:Facebook won’t let you opt out of its phone number ‘look ... by TheSpiceIsLife on Monday March 04, 2019 @12:39AM (#19299053)
It works the other way too.

I keep blocking spammy numbers, and they keep creating new ones.

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Re:Facebook won’t let you opt out of its phone number ‘look ... by sokoloff on Monday March 04, 2019 @06:16AM (#19300405)
Are they? I pay $1/mo for phone numbers, which is quite close to what I pay for most of my domains.
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Re:Facebook won’t let you opt out of its phone number ‘look ... by _rs on Monday March 04, 2019 @10:12AM (#19301832)
Could you share some places you use to buy numbers like that? Do you just set them up to forward, or do you have more control than that? I've always been interested in this, but apart from Google Voice, I haven't found a good way to get started.
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Re:Facebook won’t let you opt out of its phone number ‘look ... by sokoloff on Monday March 04, 2019 @10:31AM (#19301978)
Twilio is the easiest by far, IMO.
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Re:Facebook won’t let you opt out of its phone number ‘look ... by StudentStuff on Monday March 04, 2019 @02:57PM (#19304717)
Twilio is also one of the most expensive providers, and if you don't need E911 you can easily get numbers for less than half that price.
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Re:Facebook won’t let you opt out of its phone number ‘look ... by _rs on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @01:35PM (#19370775)
That's great to know, could you point me towards any other companies?
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Re:Facebook won’t let you opt out of its phone number ‘look ... by disiplus on Monday March 04, 2019 @07:18AM (#19300659)
phone numbers cost close to nothing to operators, but running a voip infrastructure hast its costs, and a lot of those costs come from protecting it from hacking attempts. They love open pbx boxes where they can generate a significant cost, or use to spam others.

also compassion with domain is not exactly fair in this case, it would make more sense to compare it to ip address.

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Re:Facebook won’t let you opt out of its phone number ‘look ... by StudentStuff on Monday March 04, 2019 @03:02PM (#19304770)
Fail2ban, not using IP based auth, and mandatory TLS/SRTP will generally cover your bases (ofc, Fail2ban should be banning any IPs attempting TCP/UDP registration or calling without SRTP).

Not really rocket science, but the VOIP industry is stuck in the 1990s when it comes to security practices related to their core offering. Its a terrible state of affairs!

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