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First CA passes AB 1043, which requires age attestation. Now, they take the next step.

"California is preparing to share with an outside organization detailed information about driver’s license holders"

"The state plans to provide the information to the American Assn. of Motor Vehicle Administrators, a nonprofit organization whose governing board is made up of DMV officials from across the country."

"In the future, an ID database like the one the association maintains could be used to support mobile licenses that people can use on their iPhones or online age verification for access to mature content or chatbots."

Excellent question. I will try that tomorrow morning and report back.

>>I’d argue that a reasonable network limitation with a minimal blast ratio is responsible.

I'm the OP and I agree. Across 3 Twilio phone numbers and I maybe make 4 voice calls and 10 texts a week. I've been doing this for 4 years or more.

>> For example, I use SIP over 5060 on Spectrum without issue.

As did I, until a week or so ago. Until I was cut off, without notice. I've been a Spectrum residential customer since the 1990s.

I'm not running my own service. I'm using www.iptel.org, they offer a free sip account. Under the hood they use the Kamailio sip server. It is pretty darn reliable for a free service.

Every few months iptel.org goes down for a few hours and I get 408 request timeouts. When Spectrum blocked 5060 UDP, I got 408 request timeouts for a week. It finally dawned on me to try my iptel account on my VPS and my SIP register succeeded. That's when I knew Spectrum had shut 5060 UDP. I tried 5060 TCP and that didn't work either.

My guess is Spectrum has been rate limiting port 5060 for a while, and finally just turned it off.

Nice.

>> Guess they want you to pay for their bundled phone plan instead.

I think you are right. But I am waaaay to cheap for that. I'm using Twilio on some Raspberry Pi's with some software I wrote myself. For 3 phone numbers, I'm spending like $10 a month total.

My call quality also seems better since I've switched on the VPN. I do not have numerical proof of this, but it sure seems like my voice calls are crystal clear now.

Thanks, I fixed the url.