I wonder about Hackernews most days. Today, they're arguing with each other over the efficacy of phone-based AI voice cloning and how the FBI came out with some very obvious workarounds that most people with brains already knew.
For a start, my mum and I have had a longstanding set of passwords that we use, as well as a special, equally secret, request for a password. If at any time over the phone we doubt the identity of the other, we would simply use the request phrase. We've never needed to use it but it exists. This is, like, parent-child safety 101 that everyone from McGruff the Crime Dog to the family guidance counsellor would tell everyone back in the '90s, but I guess it was also the first thing to go when Google and Facebook sent communication by voice out to pasture. But, like, I still don't understand why this wouldn't be basic knowledge?
I think this Guy Who Doesn't Know About Basic Safety is just another HN strawman, because they were like "we need some kind of 2FA for P2P communication" and I'm just like, request password, get response. If it's a text, you request they ring you up. If it's a ring to begin with, request password, await response, reject anything that sounds invalid. P2P 2FA already exists. I just talked about it. If you didn't set that up before the crisis where you get a frantic call from your brother at a strange number requesting money, that's on you, but if you have the brain I know you have, then you already did that and the argument is moot.
Like I said, I wonder about Hackernews most days. Are they okay? Are they getting enough fresh air? Have they drunk a liquid that is not caffeinated or alcoholic recently? When was the last time they ate a plant? Things like that.