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Re:FCC will require phone carriers to authenticate calls by ... by gibspaulding on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @10:30PM (#22745014)
Or perhaps just a pin they have to enter in order to get the first phone to actually ring. Basically 2fa for the right to bother me.
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Re:FCC will require phone carriers to authenticate calls by ... by dvtrn on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @11:41PM (#22745413)
With a creative dialplan design one could do this with a private Asterisk installation (asterisk is behind so many of these cheap disposable phone number/voip providers anyway), though I suppose if one wanted to use someone else’s platform and infrastructure it’d be probably less effort with twilio or plivo
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