#deathoftelephony

@drwho@hackers.town I am very far past seriously questioning the utility of any direct-dialable telephony service: landline, VOIP, or mobile, for pretty much just this reason. The telcos know this, and yet do nothing. I think they want to kill the service entirely themselves. #DeathOfTelephony

@drwho@hackers.town The telcos know they're on thin ice: [S]ince mid-2015, a consortium of engineers from phone carriers and others in the telecom industry have worked on a way to do [stop phone-number spoofing], worried that spam phone calls could eventually endanger the whole system. “We’re getting to the point where nobody trusts the phone network,” says Jim McEachern, principal technologist at the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS.) “When they stop trusting the phone network, they stop using it.” https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/05/how-to-stop-spam-robocalls-with-stir-shaken.html #DeathOfTelephony