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Re: Email Scams, Telemarketing, and Identity Theft
From: "Paul D. Robertson" <paul () compuwar net>
Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 10:23:27 -0400 (EDT)
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Marcus J. Ranum wrote:
fall under the same laws. So, with spam and telemarketing we're dealing with a social failure; the police won't protect us and we are not given the tools to protect ourselves. (And the phone companies will cheerfully sell us caller-ID but then sell telemarketers the ability to block it) Ultimately, this kind of imbalance will continue as long as it's profitable.
My phone switch (Asterisk/FreePBX on an 8yr old FreeBSD box) offers me the ability to route calls by calling number, ask for identity to be replayed to me prior to accepting the call, allows me to reject anonymous callers and gives me the ability to run an IVR from hell on anyone I can't/don't want to ID. I can also forward to my mobile or not based on all of the prior conditions, and new DIDs cost me ~$5/month for ones in a specific area code (VoIPStreet,) or can be free in a couple of area codes (IPKall,) and set my own outbound callerid to any DID I want (VoicePulse.) 'Course I live somewhere that actual broadband is available ;) Paul ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Robertson "My statements in this message are personal opinions paul () compuwar net which may have no basis whatsoever in fact." Moderator: Firewall-Wizards mailing list Art: http://PaulDRobertson.imagekind.com/ _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () listserv icsalabs com https://listserv.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
Current thread:
- Re: Email Scams, Telemarketing, and Identity Theft Marcus J. Ranum (May 01)
- Re: Email Scams, Telemarketing, and Identity Theft Paul D. Robertson (May 01)
- Re: Email Scams, Telemarketing, and Identity Theft Bruce B. Platt (May 01)