Kristian Kielhofner wrote:
Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
But gratuituously making easy something that very few people have a
legitimate need to do, which undermines something that -- even if you
do only make the resaonable assumption that you know which phone, and
not which person, is calling -- is useful and productive... is probably
a Bad Idea. Full disclosure notwithstanding.
Cheers,
-- jra
jra,
Sprint made the mistake. That is ridiculous...
Caller ID has not been secure for a long time. If you think that
it should be made secure now, you are out of touch with reality
because that is NOT going to happen. It has been made easy. It is
ubiquitous. Get over it :)!
The only options now are to not trust caller id, ask more
questions (i.e. get better identity systems and processes in place),
and, as I said, enforce laws that we already have.
I think you missed my point that setting caller id in a nefarious
way is almost always used as a tool in an action that is already
defined as a crime. The things you are talking about doing are
already illegal - whether or not you are spoofing caller id. Granted,
caller id does make it easier, but if we didn't have the ability to
set caller id the crooks would still be scamming, harassing, etc just
like they are now. They would just be using other tools to do it or
make it easier for them.
--
Kristian Kielhofner
I set caller ID to a unique identifier before sending to a transfer
partner or overflow call center. This makes it much easier to match
CDRs and get stats on the outcome of calls once they leave our center.
It is a very valuable and legitimate use. Am I committing a crime? nah.
We use and trust ANI, not caller ID although I think I read you can
manipulate ANI if you have an SS7 link. I have yet to play with SS7.
Thanks,
Steve Totaro
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