<story><title>Verified by Twilio</title><url>https://www.twilio.com/blog/introducing-verified-twilio</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m skeptical for the following reasons:&lt;p&gt;1. Companies like Twilio largely created the explosion in spam calls by providing extremely cheap, programmable calls, so I&amp;#x27;m always a little skeptical when the company selling the poison is also selling the antidote.
2. I really don&amp;#x27;t like the idea of a single company being responsible for a global verification system for something like phone calls. How are decisions made over what is verified (e.g. the example shows &amp;quot;call purpose&amp;quot; snippets on the screen - if I put something there saying &amp;quot;I have an important flight update&amp;quot;, but then my call is &amp;quot;You&amp;#x27;re only getting free peanuts on your flight, but if you enroll in this MileagePlus card you&amp;#x27;ll get snack mix too!&amp;quot; who judges that?)&lt;p&gt;Overall I&amp;#x27;d just say with all the consolidation of power with US tech giants I am extremely wary of giving them anything else that could consolidate that power further. I would much prefer an open, federated model.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sigmar</author><text>&amp;gt;Companies like Twilio largely created the explosion in spam calls by providing extremely cheap, programmable calls...&lt;p&gt;Nah, Twilio has existed for a decade. Spam calls exploded because of court decisions &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.apnews.com&amp;#x2F;f9e6e715ebef4c058499fef9efece977&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.apnews.com&amp;#x2F;f9e6e715ebef4c058499fef9efece977&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Verified by Twilio</title><url>https://www.twilio.com/blog/introducing-verified-twilio</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m skeptical for the following reasons:&lt;p&gt;1. Companies like Twilio largely created the explosion in spam calls by providing extremely cheap, programmable calls, so I&amp;#x27;m always a little skeptical when the company selling the poison is also selling the antidote.
2. I really don&amp;#x27;t like the idea of a single company being responsible for a global verification system for something like phone calls. How are decisions made over what is verified (e.g. the example shows &amp;quot;call purpose&amp;quot; snippets on the screen - if I put something there saying &amp;quot;I have an important flight update&amp;quot;, but then my call is &amp;quot;You&amp;#x27;re only getting free peanuts on your flight, but if you enroll in this MileagePlus card you&amp;#x27;ll get snack mix too!&amp;quot; who judges that?)&lt;p&gt;Overall I&amp;#x27;d just say with all the consolidation of power with US tech giants I am extremely wary of giving them anything else that could consolidate that power further. I would much prefer an open, federated model.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bestnameever</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s been awhile but I believe it is much easier to  use something like Asterisk and a sip provider to spoof calls then twillo.</text></comment>