• ikidd@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It never really was secure. You could always set the Caller ID on an outgoing PRI trunk to whatever you wanted with any of the phone systems in the last half century. It isn’t validated.

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        1 year ago

        I had a little touchtone dial pad I could put up to the mouthpiece and dial through with. It was sweet

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      It was when you had to ask the nice lady to connect you. That’s what happens when you remove all the infrastructure jobs.