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Who Owns Your Wireless Service? Crooks Do. (2019)

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It'd be interesting to see Krebs follow up to comment if changes at the FCC since 2019 have been effective or not.

There's the privacy and data protection task force[1] doing things like amended rules to combat sim swap fraud[2] (which I think only came into force this month?)

There's the robocall task force[3] with what seems like a mostly successful push for STIR/SHAKEN implementation[4] though maybe some small providers are still given extensions[5].

Granted, the Supreme Court has been poking hard at executive rulemaking capability so some stuff may not survive. Net Neutrality just had a temporary stay in the 6th Circuit.[6]

[1] https://www.fcc.gov/privacy-and-data-protection-task-force

[2] https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-23-95A1.pdf

[3] https://www.fcc.gov/spoofed-robocalls

[4] https://fccprod.servicenowservices.com/rmd?id=rmd_listings

[5] https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-23-1157A1.pdf

[6] https://www.yahoo.com/tech/us-court-temporarily-puts-net-191...

(2019)

Discussion then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20646841

SIM-swapping issues don’t exist here in Sweden. Banks here haven’t used SMS as authentication in decades.

That really is the solution: stop misusing phone numbers as secure channels.

I’m going to go out on a limb and assume that a comparison between the Trump and Biden administrations in efforts to police the telecom industry would show a marked difference in both effort and effectiveness.

I haven’t reviewed any of the facts but I’m gonna go ahead and say that there was zero difference in how these admins policed the telecom industry

The regulatory difference between the Trump and Biden administrations is largely reflected in their FCC chairs, and so you'd look at policy interventions and enforcement under these two:

Trump: Ajit Pai (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajit_Pai)

Biden: Jessica Rosenworcel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Rosenworcel)

For Rosenworcel, her primary focus seems to be a focus on restoring Net Neutrality. For Pai, his primary focus was on its repeal. The two both share a focus on broadband access and marketing radio spectrum. In terms of banter, Pai is certainly more of a "the free market" personality, and Rosenworcel is more of a "top-down regulation" personality.

Regarding impact, I would characterize their offices as substantially unique only in the context of Net Neutrality.

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