[asterisk-users] IAX based war dialer

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 04:24:42PM -0500, Jon Pounder wrote:
> Tim Nelson wrote:
> 
> The fact that this would be even being discussed on this list is an 
> embarrassment to the asterisk community.

Why? I didn't know about those dialers before.

This type of software is something that someone will obviously write.
That's the internet we live in.

> 
> I am constantly being pestered by cold callers with fake caller ids, 
> probe calls such as this, etc. I think for once CRTC/FCC need to step up 
> to the plate and take some useful measures :
> 
> - make knowingly presenting forged caller id a federal crime (its fraud 
> and harassment already)

How will that help?

> - block caller id spoofing at the telco boundaries (we all do this now 
> for ip addresses, so why not caller id ?)

So how much will it cost you to present a caller ID for IP->PSTN calls?

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