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Place responsibility where it belongs!
I worked (as a tech) in the telecommunications industry for years and I KNOW how a telco switch works. They had that problem back years ago with blue boxing. They fixed it by closing the caller channel until the connection was completed. Now somehow that channel has been reopened and that is an invitation to fraud. There is no need for restrictive legislation. There IS a need for the telcos to act responsibly and close this thing off before it becomes exploited by criminals and low life. Of course the problem with that approach is that these people, just like the people who run Microsoft, are not responsible people. If they can find a way to make a buck on some exotic feature for business, they will ignore the risks (to their customers of course, not to themselves) and enable the feature. This has all the markings of being the first virus hole in the telco network since the blue box debacle years ago (which was really just a symtom of aging network design). So come on No_Ax, you believe in personal responsibility, how about corporate responsibility?
Posted by: George Mitchell   Posted on: 08/30/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Horse Hockey! There is NO good reason to lie!  No_Ax_to_Grind | 08/30/04
Place responsibility where it belongs!  George Mitchell | 08/30/04
If that is where the problem lays..  No_Ax_to_Grind | 08/30/04
Potentially dangerous!!  drichards1953 | 08/30/04
The genie is already out of the bottle  vferrara | 08/31/04
Not a big surprise ...  George Mitchell | 08/30/04
caller id is a paid service  V Sanders | 08/30/04
Great...  KOS-MOS | 08/30/04
now if the government doesn't make this illeagal something is wrong  V Sanders | 08/30/04
How about if the VENDOR doesn't FIX it?  George Mitchell | 08/30/04
I'm not sure there *IS* an acceptable technical fix  Atlant | 08/31/04
And you may indeed be correct ...  George Mitchell | 08/31/04
I got a call from "Microsoft" a while back  cactuswren | 08/30/04
Seriously doubt MS cares about you...  John Zern | 08/31/04
Da*n Straight!!  Jigamafloo | 08/30/04
PABX's have been able to do this forever.  Atlant | 08/31/04
You are correct, but ...  George Mitchell | 08/31/04
Stalkers Rejoice!!!  itanalyst | 08/31/04
Green Light  Roger Ramjet | 09/01/04
"I'm a rep from your credit card company ...  toomuchgreeatea@... | 09/02/04

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