akugami
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- Feb 14, 2005
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In those days - before caller-id the worse we had to fear was someone calling to sell life insurance once a week now we have to worry about 10 million 'spam' calls a second; time change.
I still find it ludicrous that they have not closed the flaws making spoofing Caller ID possible. The telecoms can dress it up however they want, but to me there's no valid reason to allow spoofing.
Back then, you needed an actual person to dial numbers and talk to someone to try to scam them or sell them something. In today's technological world, sending out billions of spam calls, texts, or emails is automated and relatively cheap. Needless to say, the barrier to entry is minuscule compared to the potential profits.