Update: ZipDial Chairman, Sanjay Swami informs us that the system has now been updated to only use 1800 numbers - and now the spoofing from India numbers is no longer possible. This makes it fit for use as a viable solution for SMS voting. Update (from Nikhil Pahwa): In response to our query regarding loopholes in case of ZipDial, Valerie Rozycki, CEO at Zipdial, sent us the following response by email: "ZipDial to Verify (Z2V) is primarily focussed on two use cases: 1) Customer has signed up for NDNC and cannot receive SMS's from a service provider - Z2V solves this problem. 2) Customer has entered the wrong mobile number accidentally - Z2V catches this typo. These cases constitute the vast majority of use case scenarios. The use case when a prankster/fraudster enters a random number and uses callerID spoofing to fake this number isn't covered - however doing this is illegal under the law (as mentioned in the post) - and fundamentally there is no benefit to deliberately entering a wrong number. Any further questions on this can be directed to the ZipDial team directly - verify at zipdial dot com" Our take: Even if it is illegal to spoof mobile numbers, there is little doubt that: - If a user doesn't want to give a verified mobile number, then there is a loophole in the ZipDial system that allows her to bypass verification of a number. In this case, the website deploying the ZipDial to Verify system will…
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