[asterisk-biz] ANI

[Steve Totaro]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:31 AM, Andreas van dem Helge
<joakimsen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Or you can just wear gloves and a mask, go steal prepaid SIM cards...
>  drive off in an unmarked stolen car with fake license tags which you
>  burn anyways after you leave the vicinity of the store (get rid of all
>  the DNA evidenc)
>
>  Untraceable... ok traceable to a small phone card shop somewhere on
>  Ferdinand Bolstraat that was robbed at gunpoint by unknown persons.
>
>  You get the point. Where there is a will there is a way. There is no
>  need in burdening 99% of the "good guys" for the 1% of people that are
>  going to break the laws anyways and do bad things. They are going to
>  keep on doing them anyways. It's like restricting cold medicines in
>  the USA to stop illegal drugs. Has that at all affected the illegal
>  drug market? If anything it reduces the supply... and the rest well
>  study some basic economics.
>
>  What is the entire point of regulation? Honestly the biggest issue I
>  see with spoofed CID and ANI is the RBOCs being unable to collect
>  intrastate rates and being forced to settle for interstate rates...
>  boo-fucking-hoo
>

You were probably among the many sheep that thought the biggest issue
with a hijacked airplane was paying a ransom or the inconvenience of
being rerouted to a third world country....

Anyways, (I know you were trying to be funny or something...) your
comparison is again apples to oranges, a few calls cell calls which
can be tri-located, hardly visible can hardly cause any real damage.
Plus you cannot spoof the ANI which is the topic of the thread.
Please stay on topic.  I guess you will need something along the lines
of thermite to burn license plates....

How about a hijacked DS3 or higher blasting 911 and effectively
bringing it it's knees to real emergencies, opening the possibility of
a multitude of crimes to be committed with nobody to call.  Maybe if
you have a CB and the police still monitor channel nine....

How about a hijacked DS3 calling some of these $500/min premium
numbers and keeping the calls up?  Just ask NuFone and many other
ITSPs.

You could make a competitor bankrupt, you could get someone jailed,
your imagination is very limited.

But anyways, when I see people use profanity on a business list for no
real reason, I know they have no common sense.

Thanks,
Steve Totaro