Andrew Joakimsen wrote:
The Proposed bill S704 reads "It shall be unlawful for any person within the United States, in connection with any telecommunications service or IP-enabled voice service, to cause any caller identification service to transmit misleading or inaccurate caller identification information,"Please tell me how you can construe making a call with the the CID of a number in your control to be "Misleading or inaccurate"
You're answering your own question. Forwarding a call with a number that is not the originating number is what (drum roll) a) accurate b) inaccurate If you answered b then see me off-list for your scooby snack. As for possible scenarios, hows this one for size, you change your CID to reflect 1-800-MASTERCARD call around and fish for information: "This is John with MASTERCARD services, there's been fraudulent activity on your card and we've suspended it until we can confirm your card number..." And that's all she wrote. I've been up and down this road on the VoIP security mailing list: http://lists.virus.org/voipsec-0610/threads.html -- ==================================================== J. Oquendo http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x1383A743echo infiltrated.net|sed 's/^/sil@/g'
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