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There are absolutely legitimate use cases for phone number spoofing, especially for businesses (many locations but single contact number as an identifier), but
by codezero 3y ago
There are absolutely legitimate use cases for phone number spoofing, especially for businesses (many locations but single contact number as an identifier), but that doesn’t mean it can’t be made a lot more resilient to bad actors.
- robinsonb5 3y agoRestricting spoofing so that you have to own the spoofed number should cover the legitimate use cases, I think?
- codezero 3y agoYep!
- thereddaikon 3y agoThis is a mostly solved problem when it comes to the internet. We've figured out how to legitimately have an arbitrary number of computers appear as one single domain online and do so in a way that can be trusted. The issue with phones is a case of outdated technology and infrastructure.
- giantg2 3y agoExactly, phone systems can easily have an internal system and an external number. Very similar to internal vs external IPs. Nobody needs to care about internal numbers/IPs, but registering the external is beneficial. Treating phone numbers like IPs or even better domains could work.