Track: Programmable Real-Time Networks |
| Achieving herd immunity against robocalls |
| Robocalls are not nearly as dangerous as a pandemic, but, like other security-related threats, they share attributes with communicable diseases. Robocalls have made one of our earliest social media, the phone, much less useful, and caused significant financial losses, particularly to vulnerable populations. Beyond individual measures, we now have some "public health" approaches that may make robocalls harder to monetize and easier to contain. I will provide an update on proposed mitigations for robocalls, their promise and limitations. In particular, I will discuss how mandatory call signing, via STIR/SHAKEN, is likely to play a crucial role, but is unlikely sufficient to make the phone safe to answer again. I will also briefly compare the on-going fight against spam email with the effort to reduce robocalls. |
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