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

[Paul]

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: 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 )
>>
> [snip]
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