[asterisk-users] Caller ID Spoofing to be banned in the USA

[Ron Stephan]

>>>>Please tell me how you can construe making a call with the the CID of a number in your control to be "Misleading or inaccurate"
<<<

Sure - it goes like this - The less scrupulous among us might use a spoofed cid to get people to do something they normally
wouldn't.  Imagine a spoofed CID of your corporate headquarters and somebody calling your employees saying they were HR and needed
to confirm SSN numbers...  I will let you fill out the rest of the disaster.

Trouble is you don't think as evil as some people do.

It annoys the hell out of me too - I would love to spoof my cell CID.  I would love to have three or four cells with the same CID
(all pointing back to my astericks box).  It seems damn near impossible hear in Kalifornia.


Ron "Elvis" Stephan





-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Joakimsen
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 8:21 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Caller ID Spoofing to be banned in the USA

The Proposed bill S704 reads "It shall be unlawful for any person within the United States, in connection with any
telecommunications service or IP-enabled voice service, to cause any caller identification service to transmit misleading or
inaccurate caller identification information," 

Please tell me how you can construe making a call with the the CID of a number in your control to be "Misleading or inaccurate"


On 7/2/07, Dovid B <asteriskusers at dovid.net> wrote:

	Anyone know if this is only to "bother some one" ? I have a client that has a consulting business. The clients call in and
his asterisk server call's his cell when he is out of the office. It passes along the CID. I hope the laws don't screw this up for
those that change CID on every call for legitimate reasons.

		
		----- Original Message ----- 
		From: Dean Collins <mailto:Dean at cognation.net>  
		To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion <mailto:asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>  
		Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 5:43 PM
		Subject: [asterisk-users] Caller ID Spoofing to be banned in the USA


		Anyone running caller id spoofing applications in the USA running asterisk?

		 

		Then it's time to move them to Canada or similar.

		http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070627-caller-id-spoofing-about-to-be-outlawed.html
<http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070627-caller-id-spoofing-about-to-be-outlawed.html>  

		 

		 

		Regards,

		Dean Collins
		Cognation Pty Ltd
		dean at cognation.net 
		<mailto:dean at cognation.net> +1-212-203-4357 Ph
		+61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial).

		 

		 

		

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