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Law enforcement can already request whatever identifying information there is for any phone call (which amounts to much more than a 10 digits number). Caller ID
by pandaman 12y ago
Law enforcement can already request whatever identifying information there is for any phone call (which amounts to much more than a 10 digits number). Caller ID is a customer service that is intended to serve customers, not to catch criminals. Criminals are only being able to use it as an attack vector because there are people who believe it's some kind of authenticity certificate.
If any laws were to be changed I'd mandate a mandatory "This is the number the caller chose to identify oneself with" sticker around caller ID display on any phone witch such a feature.
- cxseven 12y agoI don't know if you've ever tried to report a nuisance call, but, as the article hints at, there's a wall of apathy at the phone company and law enforcement end to overcome. If they go the extra step to look up ANI, well, that is spoofable as well. Do they regularly go further than that? Making it not so trivial to spoof caller ID would reduce abuse just like some ISPs have elected to implement egress filtering. Just because the service is currently wildly untrustworthy doesn't mean that it should be or is required to be. There IS a market for better authentication and filtration of nuisances that companies like Google seem to be aware of.
- phkahler 12y ago>> Law enforcement can already request whatever identifying information there is for any phone call So why did we just read the linked article where the IRS (government agency) is warning people about scams but doesn't tell them to report them?