Investigators ID source of deepfake calls simulating Biden's voice
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Thousands of AI-powered calls allegedly aimed to discourage participation in last month's New Hampshire Primary.

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

  • ralphio@lemmy.world
    35·
    9 months 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.

      • FireTower@lemmy.worldOP
        17·
        9 months 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.

        • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
          20·
          9 months ago

          The name was inspired by Ian Fleming’s character James Bond, who famously prefers his martinis “shaken, not stirred”. STIR having existed already, the creators of SHAKEN “tortured the English language until [they] came up with an acronym.”

          Maria Hill: Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement, and Logistics Division. And what does that mean to you?

          Ward: It means someone really wanted our initials to spell S.H.I.E.L.D.

    • ramble81@lemm.ee
      3·
      9 months 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.

        • elrik@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          It’s not even that many numbers when the entire list could fit in memory on a modest computer.

    • helenslunch@feddit.nl
      3·
      9 months ago

      I was just irate today at the sheer amount of ads that are shoved in my face all fucking day.

      Email ads. Phone call ads. Text ads. TV ads. Post mail ads. And there’s nothing I can do about it.

      I called one of the mailers. Got a receptionist. Told her I wanted to opt out. She transferred me to a number and I immediately got a voicemail. Called back immediately. She didn’t answer. Call back again. She said I needed to talk to this person who was not in their office. Said she used to be able to do it but then they told her she couldn’t anymore. How convenient. I told her if I get another mailer I’m going to light it on fire and throw it inside their fucking office door, and then I hung up.

      • El Barto@lemmy.world
        31·
        9 months ago

        And there’s nothing I can do about it.

        Sure you can. Stop watching TV, use adblockers, and for the actual snail mail, yeah, that’s a harder one, but doable.

        • Randomgal@lemmy.ca
          2·
          9 months ago

          This may be luck and based on your location, but I tried placing a “No fliers please” post it on my mailbox, and it seems to have stopped all fliers.

        • helenslunch@feddit.nl
          21·
          9 months ago

          Sure you can. Stop watching TV

          Yeah I don’t consider moving into a cave a solution but you go on ahead.

          for the actual snail mail, yeah, that’s a harder one, but doable.

          Oh please do share

          • El Barto@lemmy.world
            21·
            9 months ago

            Lol that’s called TV addiction! I was like you and now I am free.

            I’m assuming you’re talking about actual TV viewing, right? Like broadcast TV and cable TV?

            For snail mail, there are organizations that can help you with that. I can’t remember their names off the top of my head, but a quick search should help you.

            • helenslunch@feddit.nl
              11·
              9 months ago

              I’m assuming you’re talking about actual TV viewing, right? Like broadcast TV and cable TV?

              No.

              For snail mail, there are organizations that can help you with that. I can’t remember their names off the top of my head, but a quick search should help you.

              I’ve spent more time than I should have searching and come up empty.

                • helenslunch@feddit.nl
                  1·
                  9 months ago

                  Some of them require paying a processing fee like $4, and it “stops it for 10 years,” which is totall bullshit, but eh.

                  Did that. Nothing happened. Just a scam. If you look into that company it’s just a big advertising conglomerate.