Apple needs to change iPhone’s call UI because robocalls are killing us
&quot;At the telelphony-infrastructure level, it’s a supremely difficult problem that lacks a short-term fix because the underlying protocol is hopelessly insecure.&quot;<p>This is only partly true. Technologically the solution is difficult, but it&#x27;s easy from the social side as carriers can blacklist the smaller carriers that allow this fraud to take place.<p>The real problem is that everyone except the consumer benefits from this. Every phone company in the chain from the scammer to you takes a penny out of the scammer&#x27;s profits.<p>At this point these scam phone calls may be nearing the majority of the phone calls placed in the USA, so it&#x27;s going to be a huge financial disruption to the carriers when they have to give up their game.