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		miohtama on Sept 11, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hackers Hit Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in a ‘SIM Swap... It was not a SIM swap, but a spoofed sender number. You can have whatever as your sender number in SMS, same as with email.

imglorp on Sept 11, 2019 [–]

Solving spoofed callerid would help reduce robocalls also. I don't understand why the telcos can't make this happen. If they don't figure this out, we're all going to drop SMS and voice forever; the trend away from SMS has already started and people already have stopped answering all calls they don't know.

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