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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
Spoof the White House's phone number
and
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
Never been called by the Whitehouse have you? Their number doesn't return a caller ID codes at least on My Verizon cell phone.
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!"