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We have all this verification on the Web, but not the phone. Why do telcos allow for spoofing? We wouldn't allow that with email. Is this a technical limitation that allows for spoofing?





We have had phone company employees here explaining that their company makes a lot of money from scammers/spammers/etc so they do not have an incentive to stop it.

How about a law with teeth?


> We wouldn't allow that with email.

We allowed email to be the wild west for years and I'm not sure it's better than telephony now


SPF is so bad we basically do allow it



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