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'Robocall Strike Force' Proposal Could Stop Caller ID Spoofing (onthewire.io)
This summer the FCC convened a "Robocall Task Force" to help consumers fight unwanted automated telemarketers, and Wednesday the coalition finally delivered a report recommending a "Do Not Originate" list so carriers could spot spoofed numbers which should be blocked.
A trial of the "DNO" list that's been running for the last few weeks on some IRS numbers has resulted in a 90 percent drop in the volume of IRS scam calls, officials from AT&T, which leads the strike force, said during the FCC meeting Wednesday. The carriers on the strike force, which include Sprint, Verizon, and many others, plan to continue testing the DNO list in the coming months, with the intent to fully implement it some time next year...
The strike force members also are working on a system to classify calls into categories, such as political or charity, as a way to give consumers more information before they answer calls from unknown numbers. And, the group said it has developed a working solution for authentication between VoIP applications and traditional landline networks as another way to defeat spoofing from callers in foreign countries.
Early next year they're planning larger tests -- and the strike force has also created a new site describing how to block and report robocalls.
The strike force members also are working on a system to classify calls into categories, such as political or charity, as a way to give consumers more information before they answer calls from unknown numbers. And, the group said it has developed a working solution for authentication between VoIP applications and traditional landline networks as another way to defeat spoofing from callers in foreign countries.
Early next year they're planning larger tests -- and the strike force has also created a new site describing how to block and report robocalls.
The task of government is to make the system appear fair to all and to achieve a relatively constant justice. Actually being fair and just in all cases is of course, impossible. But governments have been failing at this task of appearing uncorrupted for a while now. The first effect is vigilantism, as we see with Anonymous and Wikileaks. Then it comes off its moorings with random killing to settle scores. Then we're back in medieval times in the West...much of the rest of the world still lives under the threat of random killing. At that point, our communication systems and goods distribution will crash to a halt due to the manifest lack of safety.
We're not far away from that reality. Therefore, any attempt to reassure people that there are consequences for unfair or criminal action is useful. Coming up with more and more baleful punishments for the tiny minority who get caught is not the solution, though.
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