Re:FCC will require phone carriers to authenticate calls by ...
by Humphrey on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @01:34AM
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Australian here.
Until this HN post it never occurred to me that you could spoof phone calls. While landlines used to get lots of spam calls, perhaps I've had just two of these calls to my mobile in my life. Each time I typed the number into google and found reports of that number being spam. And maybe less than 20 spam sms's.
Does this mean that other countries (such as Australia) do not allow spoofing of numbers?
Until this HN post it never occurred to me that you could spoof phone calls. While landlines used to get lots of spam calls, perhaps I've had just two of these calls to my mobile in my life. Each time I typed the number into google and found reports of that number being spam. And maybe less than 20 spam sms's.
Does this mean that other countries (such as Australia) do not allow spoofing of numbers?