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And you may indeed be correct ...
I must admit, I hadn't thought of that angle. Excellent point. From a security point of view this gets REALLY bad, worse than email spoofing. At least with email, your not trying to use it to call 911. This also means that there is no longer any telco ANI, so CALLERID is all that remains and it can read anything the caller wants it to read, just like the sender name on an email. If this is indeed the case, it really puts the heat of fixing TCP-IP to so that every entry point applies an originator ID to make connections tracable. Perhaps both the email spam problem and the telephone fraud problem can be addressed at the same time.
Posted by: George Mitchell   Posted on: 08/31/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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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
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How about if the VENDOR doesn't FIX it?  George Mitchell | 08/30/04
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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
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You are correct, but ...  George Mitchell | 08/31/04
Stalkers Rejoice!!!  itanalyst | 08/31/04
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