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I am still stunned that they respond so swiftly to this but have not dealt with SMS spoofing in years:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3509228

This is certainly bad, but SMS spoofing has the potential to do a lot more damage. People trust SMS too much.

This seems to be quite a simple fix; SMS spoofing's a much more complicated problem I think because it requires co-operation across carriers.

There are also a lot of services which rely on "legitimate spoofing" e.g. skype allowing you to send text messages from it's service which appear to be from your actual mobile number (so they can be replied to etc).

Just because it is complicated does not mean it should not be dealt with. Fast.

It's complicated, so fast is the last thing you want --- unless you're happy with a high risk of inadvertently introducing new loopholes.

Currently they are doing nothing. So I stand corrected. Faster than 0mph.

I agree it needs fixing, and that the phone companies should try to fix it. Just not in haste.

It's a feature, not a bug.

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