Re: Email Scams, Telemarketing, and Identity Theft

["Paul D. Robertson" <paul () compuwar net>]

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
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