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Re:Why is it so hard to give Google money? by LarsAlereon on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @01:50PM (#32241436)
I mean we were starting from a system that was basically e-mail, except where providers were required to deliver all messages without any discrimination or filtering. They had to create a new framework that allowed for carriers to choose not to deliver calls, interoperable technology to authenticate calls, and now close loopholes that are still allowing bad actors access to the phone network. It's a fundamental rearchitecting of how the phone network works that requires every single operator to make upgrades, so yeah it's going to take some time. And you're not really going to see much progress until it's nearly finished because if 90% of the network is secure you'll just see the same volume of crap through the remaining 10%.
Re:Why is it so hard to give Google money? by encryptluks2 on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @02:43PM (#32242213)
That date has already passed and it is still a serious issue. Not to mention the billions we handed out to telecom companies to assist with upgrades that they just pocketed.