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

[Al Bochter]

Well the gun owner will go to jail!
Take a look at your local news.

Best regards,

Al Bochter
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Tim Panton wrote:

>On 28 Jun 2007, at 17:42, J. Oquendo wrote:
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>>Dean Collins wrote:
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>>>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
>>>
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>>>
>>Why it means nothing...
>>
>>You're a carrier doing VoIP... Say a managed carrier. You
>>re-sell trunks. One of those trunks maintains their own PBX.
>>PBX admin decides to spoof out and is using a proxy say in
>>India. Hell make it Tor for that matter. What's to prosecute?
>>Prove it happened from where you say it did - remember the
>>burden is on the prosecution.
>>
>>Now as the carrier (me) first thing I'm going to do is track
>>down which trunk it came from... Then go to that client...
>>So what happens if say the client was legitimately "owned"
>>and had various "proxied" addresses committing toll fraud.
>>
>>Analogy... Gun dealer sells a .45 to an authorized gun
>>buyer. Gun owner leaves his gun at home. Someone breaks into
>>his home, cracks his gun safe, uses his gun for a crime,
>>re-enters and places the gun back in the safe. Now its
>>known it wasn't the gun owner because he was witnessed by
>>the court system and recorded say at jury duty... What do
>>you do, prosecute him? For what? Negligence?
>>
>>It would be humorous to see how this plays out. To me its
>>more or less "voting time let's sign pretend laws for
>>brownie points"
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>The situation here in the UK is that the folks who interconnect to
>the PSTN have to validate that you own/control the number you
>are sending via IAX or SIP. We had a problem where an internal id was  
>not
>getting overwritten with a valid PSTN number, one of our suppliers
>set a default caller-id and another rejected the calls.
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>The process is annoying, but it works fine, you have to either
>use callerids of DIDs you have bought from the same ITSP
>or fax them a telco bill indicating your rights to that number.
>
>Tim Panton
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>www.mexuar.net
>www.westhawk.co.uk/
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