[ARC5] Spammers...

[Jim Haynes]

Well, now, the phone companies seem to be pretty good at billing long
distance calls to the actual originating number.  I haven't heard of
anybody being able to bill long distance calls to someone else's number.
(except where a company PBX is involved to let employees make calls at
company expense)(and then the ancient days of the blue box, but they
don't work anymore, and they were a way to escape getting billed, not to
have the call billed to a different number)

And the businesses that have toll-free numbers presumably get the
correct caller numbers delivered to them, for business reasons.
Likewise for 911 calls.  So why can't ordinary telephone subscribers
get the same kind of caller-ID service?

On Fri, 10 Apr 2015, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:

> On 11 Apr 2015 at 1:31, Glen Zook via ARC5 wrote:
>
>> How many nanoseconds do you think that it would take some hacker to devise a way
>> around such a system? Glen, K9STH
>
> One? ;-)
>
> Ken W7EKB
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