couldn’t disagree more. this is pointless and useless. jail time is required, not an uncollectable fine from the perps. a more palatable solution would be fining telcos (because it’s collectible and damaging) for allowing it. we’ll then see good blocking measures in place.
Not even sure why telecoms are allowed to allow spoofing. Should be absolutely illegal both in their own network and they should be disallowed from peering with networks where it is allowed.
Actually, I do know: it's profitable to them and they lobby a lot.
Telcos actually don't have that much leeway in whether they can allow this stuff on the network. That's part and parcel of the whole "common carrier" thing that some people wish would be required of internet service providers; as a common carrier, they can't block legitimate, legal use of the service until some authority tells them it's not legitimate or legal, and that's a (due) process.
So not to go to bat for Ma Bell and her li'l babies here, but fining the telcos for following the law would be counter-productive and unfair.
i understand that but that rule is actually imposed by the same agency (FCC) imposing the fine. AIUI. so that is changeable. correct though, under the current rules this is not possible
