Investigators identify source of deepfake robocalls simulating Biden's voice before NH primary

3 years ago by FireTower to c/news

On Tuesday morning, Formella stepped up to a podium and announced the calls came from Life Corporation and Walter Monk of Texas.

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ralphio 35 points 3 years ago

Not sure how hard it would be, but if it's possible the FCC really needs to get telecom companies to secure their systems to prevent number spoofing.

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ULS 18 points 3 years ago

The telecom system is so shitty.

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ptz 13 points 3 years ago path: 0 7300666 7301181, hotness: undefined, score: 13, children: 2
FireTower 17 points 3 years ago

Signature-based Handling of Asserted information using toKENs.

They really wanted that acronym to sound cool. To be fair SBHAIUT doesn't sound as good.

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ramble81 3 points 3 years ago

Sadly it became annoyingly complicated and manual with number porting. Previously you could have just implemented “we own these blocks, this isn’t in our block, drop the call” but with number porting there are a lot of one offs to track. Not saying they shouldn’t do it, but number portability screwed with things.

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lolcatnip 6 points 3 years ago

If only there were some sort of way to automate handling a whole lot of numbers...

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helenslunch 3 points 3 years ago
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elbarto777 2 points 3 years ago
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USSEthernet 2 points 3 years ago

I'm sorry, are you rich or a politician? No? They don't care enough to do anything.

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