USPS text scammers duped his wife, so he hacked their operation

> The Smishing Triad network sends up to 100,000 scam texts per day globally

This should not be possible. I guess the iMessage scams used e2ee, but the SMS scams should have been caught. It would be great if there was law enforcement that competently handled cybercrime, or at least triaged it.

More broadly, and at the risk of creating another TLA, the US needs a Blue Team version of the NSA. In other words, identify critical infrastructure, figure out how it can be hacked, and require that companies fix the issues. Use national security if need be. Banks have to undergo stress tests to prove they are solvent, there is no reason that critical infrastructure should be able to leave their doors unlocked.

Spam filtering for SMS is still not particularly broadly implemented by network operators apparently.

I remember during Covid there was a few startups in that space trying to work with MVNO’s to get a foothold in the market, but don’t think any of that went anywhere.