"In a good implementation of this feature, the receiver would see the original phone number and the reply-to one. On iPhone, when you see the message, it seems to come from the reply-to number, and you loose track of the origin."
What device currently out there does display the from/reply-to?
Spoofing the reply-to or what number a message came from is easy, and has been used before to fake post messages to peoples twitter account for instance, same could probably be done with Facebook if someone has the SMS feature turned on.
I don't remember any of my phones ever having a feature that allowed me to see the Sender/Reply-to for any text message I've received. One thing I do know is that I trust SMS about as far as I trust my carriers and I don't trust them at all. Even if a "bank" were to text me I wouldn't use the information provided in the text to make my next move.
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"In a good implementation of this feature, the receiver would see the original phone number and the reply-to one. On iPhone, when you see the message, it seems to come from the reply-to number, and you loose track of the origin."
What device currently out there does display the from/reply-to?
Spoofing the reply-to or what number a message came from is easy, and has been used before to fake post messages to peoples twitter account for instance, same could probably be done with Facebook if someone has the SMS feature turned on.
I don't remember any of my phones ever having a feature that allowed me to see the Sender/Reply-to for any text message I've received. One thing I do know is that I trust SMS about as far as I trust my carriers and I don't trust them at all. Even if a "bank" were to text me I wouldn't use the information provided in the text to make my next move.