[Ads-l] acronym of the week

[James A. Landau]

STIR/SHAKEN

Secure Telephone Identity Revisited/Signature-based Handling of Asserted information using toKENS

a technique being tested by telephone companies to eliminate "spoofing" of telephone numbers and verifying that the numbers shown on Caller ID are correct.

https://www.philly.com/business/robocall-scam-comcast-att-tmobile-stir-shaken-20190320.html

"Robocall detector passes key test" Philadelphia Inquirer Thursday March 21, 2019 page A9 column 5, continued on page A11 column 4.

- Jim Landau

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