What is an "ebony phone"? (Google results for that phrase are mostly porn.)
On Sat, Mar 7, 2020 at 12:55 PM Christopher Morrow <morrowc.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 7, 2020 at 4:10 AM Bryan Holloway <br...@shout.net> wrote: > > > > > > On 3/7/20 8:03 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 11:05 PM Brian J. Murrell < > br...@interlinx.bc.ca> wrote: > > > > > >> So, if my telco can bill the callers for those premium calls, they > > >> surely know who they are, or at least know where they are sending the > > >> bill and getting payment from. > > > > > > You are mistaken, billing is very hard. > > > Telcos show this regularly. > > > > > > > On the contrary: billing is easy. Getting it right is hard. > > You are technically correct, the best kind of correct. > > Seriously though, a bunch of the conversation about shaken/stir and > various problems with spam callers reveals: > "telcos don't care (for any reason you can imagine)" > "gov't mandates aren't really going to help" > "people care as recipients of these calls, but really there are > options for them as well to not get the calls (or not answer them)" > > I like that Mr Thomas's answer: "Why can't we just cryptpgraphically > sign the caller's ANI and use that as a method to ID real callers we > care about?" > since that was my suggestion to the stir folk in their very first > meeting... "what about ebony phones!" said the lawyer from > telco-ville. >
