[asterisk-biz] ANI

[Steve Totaro]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 9:57 PM, Trixter aka Bret McDanel
<trixter at 0xdecafbad.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 21:15 -0400, voipguy wrote:
>> Of course they would believe caller id is accurate. It was originally
>> "sold" to them that way. Same applies to things like "privacy guard"
>> that depend on caller id.
>
>
> and that may be the bigger problem.  The phone network was never
> designed to allow anyone and everyone act like a phone network.  They
> made promises they can only keep when a few "trusted" companies are able
> to control what data goes where.  The emergence of SS7 firewalls shows
> that they dont trust all the data that may be trafficed over the
> network, a network that was also never designed to have but a few
> "trusted" people on it.
>

The same can be said with the internet.

Thanks,
Steve Totaro