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Patrick McKenzie

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. https://t.co/SObflqCi9s

Scams against the less tech literate (eg the elderly) are going to get so wild in coming yrs. If grandparents are already wiring $ to scammers in response to low-quality impersonation calls, what happens when they answer a realistic FaceTime that’s a deepfake of their grandkids?

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Everett Randle

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.)

I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups.

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