Dave Bour wrote: > There's two things here that could have helped. > 1. Database linkage of billing address to emergency address. Had that > changed, it would or should raise a flag to investigate. > 2. GeoIP tracking has been around for a long time. The registrar could again > have a flag to pick up such....granted if someone moves two blocks, not > likely this would have helped. In this case, a cross country move could have > been picked by a GeoIP flag. > So this raises a question though about liability and such for voice services > providers. Where do we stand. How much insurance should we have?
A little birdy mentioned to me earlier that Comwave was pressuring some companies to buy e911 services from them only couple of weeks ago or threatened to report them to the CRTC. I guess Comwave will be a little preoccupied fixing up their system now ;) As for GeoIP, doesn't tend to work very well with DSL, especially where the tails are terminated 100's or 1000's of km from the actual customer, I've no idea how good the data is beyond town/city, although in this case as you said when they moved across country this might have been good enough to raise flags to further investigate. Although people using this kind of thing from a wifi capable/enabled mobile phone is likely to trip this every time you change cafes. I know you can't get insurance for data, at least not at a reasonable price, I assume insuring against this sort of thing would be fairly expensive too. -- Best regards, Duane http://www.freeauth.org - Enterprise Two Factor Authentication http://www.nodedb.com - Think globally, network locally http://www.sydneywireless.com - Telecommunications Freedom http://e164.org - Global Communication for the 21st Century "In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip." --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
