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Patrick McKenzie

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over 2 years ago

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The reason to be optimistic about this is that Apple would respond to widespread abuse of FaceTime with approximately the vigor that the United States would bring to bear on an armed invasion.

The United States could choose to bring that degree of vigor and competence to scams delivered over the POTS network. It chooses not to.

(The words “We chose not to.”, with the “we” referring to the nation, appear a lot in my VaccinateCA postmortem.)