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Caller ID Falsification Service
Dan writes "
A US website will offer Caller ID falsification service...Slated for launch this week, Star38.com would offer subscribers a simple Web interface to a Caller ID spoofing system that lets them appear to be calling from any number they choose. [...]
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."
On the other hand, who gives a shit if Castro is pissed off about being broadcast without being told??
I don't even HAVE a credit card
I'd like to congratulate you on being both priveleged and perfect. You are fit to rule in supremacy over your fellow man who was unfortunate enough not to be given your golden seat.
It doesn't mean that little morons must play along
It is so much easier to call your fellow Americans morons than it is to recognize that there is a problem with the precious system. The average American household has something close to $8k in credit card debt alone and yet they're all morons. There's no foul play on the part of the financial companies. Why, they're perfect, and they wouldn't even dream of exploiting loopholes in the concrete tower of iron laws that keeps you safe and warm at night.
It's because people like to live beyond their means - they like to live in huge houses, they like to have 3 big cars instead of one normal (European or Asian) car, etc
The vast majority of people with huge houses and three cars are precisely those people manipulating the financial market to ensure that the people with no house and half a used car continue to rely on the credit which they can afford to extend. Maybe you're disgusted with the rich and pompous nature of American society but you're not doing any good by taking your derision out on those who are left fighting over the table scraps.
you don't have money, you don't spend money - you work harder and you save
Once again, you are perfect and fit to rule in supremacy over your fellow man. The rest of us need to eat. Since we're not at war, there's no famine in the US, and we're willing to put in an honest days work there's no reason why we should subsist on oatmeal gruel just to please the likes of you.
It's the careless parents and the stupid kids
That is the viewpoint of a bitter old man. It's not careless parents and stupid kids. It's parents at the end of their own financial rope and kids who are seduced by marketing and offered a drop of fresh water from which everyone drinks deeply. It is predatory lenders who keep their funds locked solidly away in self-promoting investments for the explicit purpose of justifying ridiculous interest rates, inflation, and the rapacious fines and fees that come along with an infraction no worse than wanting butter on the bread.
it's the new and competitive 21st century
Is this the century where we starve our neighbor to increase the profit margin on our apple pie? Is this the century where the middle class finally realizes that it is not an equal citizen in this nation but rather a cash crop of willing debtors who are browbeaten into feeling guilty for enjoying life above the lot of the Catholic Irish during the potato famine?
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