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Caller ID Spoofing for the Masses

Posted by michael on from the e.t.-phone-home dept.

lolly72 writes "SecurityFocus has a story on a new U.S. website offering a caller I.D. falsification service. It's called Camophone. It's being advertised in Google ads that appear with search results for Star38.com, which was the the last service to try and make money off caller I.D. hacking. But unlike Star38.com, Camophone isn't limited to collection agencies and private investigators, and it doesn't cost $125 to sign up. Anyone with a PayPal account can use it, and at five cents a minute, probably will. Who do you want to fake out today?"

3 of 286 comments (clear)

  1. They use cleartext authentication by SocietyoftheFist · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    nuff said for me...

  2. Re:Somebody will figure it out by rasqual · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Free speech implies the freedom to lie, but the number of statutes that punish misrepresentation and, yes, lying, belie ;-) the notion that all lying is protected speech. Furthermore, for my part I'm sick of everything anyone does, anymore, being classified as "speech." All I need to do is claim I'm a performance artist, and anything I freakin' do is protected. And how do I prove I'm a performance artist? By doing something gratuitous and outrageous. Everyone knows no one but a genuine performance artist would engage in the outrageous, inasmuch as only everyone else would be interested in preserving the respectable status quo, whereas we artistes are, of course, obliged to challenge such pretentions. ;-)

  3. Re:Excellent for Push Poolling by Kiryat+Malachi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Push pooling, eh...

    Do not trust the pusher robot. He will push you into the pool.

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