SecurityFocus took the site for a test drive, and found it worked as advertised. The user fills out a simple Web form with his phone number, the number he wants to call, and the number he wants to appear to be calling from. Within two seconds, the system rings back, and patches the user through to the destination. The recipient sees only the spoofed number displayed on Caller ID. Any number works, from nonsense phone numbers like "123 4567" to the number for the White House switchboard.I hate this. If you're like me, as one comedian put it, you hate people. So I rely heavily on caller id to screen calls. The only good part of Star68 is that it's relatively pricey--twenty-five cents per call, plus charges per minute--so that it probably won't be used by telemarketers.
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Posted by johndan at August 30, 2004 02:20 PM
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