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$ ping protonvpn.com ping: protonvpn.com: Temporary failure in name resolution

In Southern California

I had my identity stolen via the Equfax Data breach in 2017. Pursuant to https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/refunds/equifax-data-breach-settlement I got my Settlement Fund check today. My check number was nearly 1.1 million, so there are at least that many checks being distributed.

A measly $5.21. I'm disgusted.

Fortunately I had my credit locked so nothing bad happened.

If you don't have your credit locked I would do it right away. All 3 bureaus.

For several years, I've run 3 VOIP phones from my house. About a week ago they stopped working. SIP REGISTER started failing.

Turns out Spectrum now blocks TCP/UDP port 5060. My workaround is to use a VPN. After that, everything is fine.

This reddit thread https://www.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/t8nulq/spectrum_is_rate_limiting_voipsip_traffic_port/ suggests Spectrum was rate limiting 5060 on 300mbps plans, but not on the 100mbps plans.

I have the 100mbps plan, and it is definitely affected now.

So if you are in SoCal, using Spectrum, and your VOIP phones suddenly stopped working in the last week or so, maybe this will help you.

I wanted an alternate second factor authentication (2FA) phone number on a Raspberry Pi. So I built it for myself. I've been using it for several years. And I want to know if other folks would like to use it.

The software is out on [github](https://github.com/another2020githubuser/pi2fa-mvp). It is Python3 and Gtk. It uses Twilio as the back end.

Please take a look. And please take 5 seconds and take the [Poll](https://github.com/another2020githubuser/pi2fa-mvp/discussions/2).

Ask questions here, or use github discussions.

Thanks.

So I was sending an SMS to my friend using Twilio. And it got rejected as violating carrier guidelines. It was about masks, not even controversial. I tried to send my friend a copy/paste of the twilio error message and this was rejected as violating carrier guidelines.

--edit to clarify rejected/accepted messages

This gets rejected: "(Error: 30007) Carrier violation. Your message content was flagged as going against Verizon carrier guidelines."

This does not get rejected: "(Error: 30007) Carrier violation. Your message content was flagged as going against carrier guidelines. Verizon"

This gets rejected: "(Error: 30007) Verizon Carrier violation. Your message content was flagged as going against carrier guidelines."

The only difference is adding the word Verizon in various places.

And by the way Verizon, why is a Twilio error message considered harmful enough to filter?