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Caller ID Spoofing Firm Gets Death Threats

Posted by michael on from the guess-people-like-their-caller-id dept.

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."

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  1. An idea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Comic strip- 1: Dying soldier, "Please sarge, kill me". 2: Sgt. fires one shot into his head and several into his crotch. 3. Other soldier, 'Why did you shoot him there?' Sgt, 'To destroy the penis'.

  2. OT I have 6 gmail invites. by Llynix · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Just email me.

  3. MOD PARENT UP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    We've been running low on Soviet Russia jokes lately.

  4. Re:In Soviet Russia... by maximilln · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I like Soviet Russia jokes.

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    +++ATHZ 99:5:80
  5. in regards to sig by plasm4 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You know, the Taleban have more than a fighting chance the way things are going right now. It's only a matter of time before we either have to substantially increase our presence (draft maybe?) in Afghanistan or get the hell out and let the Taleban duke it out with the Tajiks and Uzbeks.

    I wasn't the original poster.