Re:Let’s Destroy Robocalls
by kevin_thibedeau on Monday March 04, 2019 @01:24PM
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It would be nice if someone would create a device to exchange contact info with businesses to close the loop on managing the whitelist for new, infrequent associations. I should be able to go to a receptionist, mechanic, or contractor and accept identifying info from a Bluetooth device or a standardized non-URL QR code payload to let them contact me in the future. Then we could more conveniently manage authentication ourselves and cut the bad actors out of the process.
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You can embed a vCard in a QR code right now. Your phone should handle it correctly.
That's a neat feature that I didn't even know existed. Sure enough, fives seconds on a random qr code site (https://www.qrcode-monkey.com/#vcard) and my iPhone's camera offered to add it as a contact. I wonder why this isn't first-class (in terms of exporting); something I can expose directly as "this is me" or to pass off an existing contact via a quick visual swap.
I guess I'll generate one for me and store it in the notes app, which is sort of a catchall for this sort of thing.
Re:Let’s Destroy Robocalls
by reaperducer on Monday March 04, 2019 @02:21PM
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That only works until the receptionist, mechanic, contractor, business can no longer be trusted.
I took my cat in for an oil change over the weekend. That resulted in three spam texts and two spam e-mails from VCA. Time to change vets.
Re:Let’s Destroy Robocalls
by lapnitnelav on Monday March 04, 2019 @04:48PM
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How often do you need to change the oil on a cat? Every 10K Meow-les?
And to be on topic, you'd need a trusted 3rd party to manage those. But lately we've seen you can't trust them to secure / not resell your data anyway.