As long as you are sending a number that you are authorized to use,
there is no harm done. I think it might be addressed by FCC and state
PUCs along with the telcos. The reason for that would be money - if the
quality of the feature is degraded the value goes down.
I just hope the rulemakers don't go overboard. Setting the caller ID
number for honest purposes should be allowed. I think that cell carriers
would already be doing it if there was an easy way to verify you have
rights to the number you want sent.
John Todd wrote:
A little bird whispers to me: Don't expect this particular trick to be
un-addressed by various legislatures forever. That window is closing,
and the bottom of the window looks very much like a guillotine blade -
don't have your head in the wrong place.
In any case, as has been discussed on -users before (which is where
this thread should go, and thus where I'm relegating it) that spoofing
caller ID, your postal mailing address, your name, your voice, or
anything else is equally illegal and prosecutable if used for
fraudulent purposes.
JT
At 10:58 AM -0700 9/23/05, Gilmore, Gerry wrote:
Hhhhmmm, I stand corrected. I'm surprised that the carriers and
regulators are allowing it, butŠ..wherever a buck's to be made, I
guessŠ..
Gerry
There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand
binary and those who don't.
Gerry Gilmore
Field Applications Engineer
Intel Corporation
(<http://www.intel.com>http://www.intel.com)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of BJ Weschke
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 12:29 PM
To: Asterisk Developers Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Dev] Open source time card application for
Asterisk
From an infrastructure perspective, you're right.
From an ASP perspective, you're wrong.
http://www.spooftel.com/ - "Spoof your own Caller ID for $0.10/min"
If you're using GMail a number of other providers come advertised
alongside this thread. :-)
For that very reason, the only way one could truly verify someone's
location via CID would be to do a callback to the CID supplied.
On 9/23/05, Gilmore, Gerry
<<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Chuck,
Actually, Caller ID cannot - so far as I know - "easily be spoofed".
While you can usually disable sending "caller ID" by the *6x method,
be aware that if you call an 800 number, that 800 number * will* get
the calling party number. It's needed for billing the 800# recipient.
With PRI, if you have it correctly provisioned by the carrier and
they support it, etc., you can legitimately spoof a caller name and
number, but I doubt a nurse or janitor would maintain a PRI line to
do this. J
Gerry
There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand
binary and those who don't.
Gerry Gilmore
Field Applications Engineer
Intel Corporation
(<http://www.intel.com/>http://www.intel.com )
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