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Caller ID Spoofing Firm Gets Death Threats
Frankie70 writes "Three days after the startup company Star38 began offering a service that fools Caller ID systems, the founder, Jason Jepson, has decided to sell the business. Jepson said he had received harassing e-mail and phone messages and even a death threat taped to his front door -- all of which he said came from people opposed to his publicizing a commercial version of technology that until now has been mainly used by software programmers and the computer hackers' underground. Details in the Houston Chronicle. Earlier ZDnet article about the service."
Attempts to trace the harassing calls failed due to their use of spoofed Caller ID information.
I didn't tape it to his door, I taped it to his mailbox.... ...NO WAIT! Ignore that last little bit....
"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it." - John Lennon.
One good use I've heard of is pranking friends/enemies. A joke is a legitimate use. Say you've got a friend in the federal government that's looking to be upwardly-mobile. Spoof the White House's phone number. For the overly, overly religious; (666) 666-6666.
"For years, I struggled with reality... but I'm happy to say I finally won out over it." -- Elwood P. Dowd
Obviously, no one is going to buy that business knowing that they'll receive imminent death threats! He needs to go back to Marketing 101. On the other hand, he probably could sell the business for a nice profit because of the publicity that it has generated.
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Spoof the White House's phone number
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For the overly, overly religious; (666) 666-6666
aren't you being a bit redundant?
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Gandhi
You properly use the contraction "it's" and you use it twice in the same sentance. This is a record on /..
I am not amused at your attempt to discredit a post merely because of its proper use of grammar!
Know what I like about atheists? I've yet to meet one that believes God is on their side.
Never been called by the Whitehouse have you? Their number doesn't return a caller ID codes at least on My Verizon cell phone.
It's not like the man is running a web based puppy killing service, folks.
I was going to find some online puppy killing service, just to fuck around with you, but after several minutes of googling I couldn't find one.
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Did you hear the one about the literate /.'er?
He's thinking of whitehouse.gov, not whitehouse.com calling to tell you your parents' credit card declined.
The call was probably along the lines of "get off our lawn and take your damned pants with you" ;)
Please tell me when you repo'd MC Hammer's car he ran out and yelled "Can't touch this!"