[Asterisk-Users] RE: [Asterisk-Dev] Open source time card application for Asterisk

[John Todd]

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: asterisk-dev-bounces at lists.digium.com 
>[mailto:asterisk-dev-bounces at lists.digium.com] 
>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:gerry.gilmore at intel.com>gerry.gilmore at intel.com> 
>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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