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Mississippi Makes Caller ID Spoofing Illegal

Posted by timothy on from the so-be-sure-to-stop-in-late-june dept.

marklyon writes "HB 872, recently signed into law by Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, makes Caller ID spoofing illegal. The law covers alterations to the caller's name, telephone number, or name and telephone number that is shown to a recipient of a call or otherwise presented to the network. The law applies to PSTN, wireless and VoIP calls. Penalties for each violation can be up to $1,000 and one year in jail. Blocking of caller identification information is still permitted."

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  1. Re:CLID name not specified by caller by spun · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ding ding ding, we have a winner!
    More stupid politicians makings laws about things they do not understand.

    I bet they did not even know the difference between CLID and ANI.

    Everyone should know the difference between the CLID and the ANI. The CLID is in the front and the ANI is in the back.

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  2. Re:Not a bad idea... in fact, an obvious good idea by asdf7890 · · Score: 5, Funny

    All corporations are inherently sociopathic, lacking in empathy, remorse, guilt...

    A corporation pays my salary, so they can't be all bad.

    They only pay you because slavery is illegal. Doing the right thing because you have no choice doesn't count when good karma is being totted up.

  3. Re:Not a bad idea... in fact, an obvious good idea by QuantumRiff · · Score: 2, Funny

    How? Seriously, how the hell would they enforce it? Companies use caller ID spoofing all the time! Look when an agent at your bank calls you from their call center. Does their phone number show up? Nope, its the 800 number, that you can call back the company on. Isn't that the same as spoofing? I mean, technically, its the exact same steps in the PBX to do it maliciously or not.

    Then, you might have one call center in one region have a nice fat pipe coming in from ATT, a second call center handled by Verizon, but your 800 number is handled by sprint over in California. So how would ATT or verizon enforce the "spoofing rule" without having any knowledge or control over your 800 number?

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  4. Re:Not a bad idea... in fact, an obvious good idea by Nadaka · · Score: 2, Funny

    It is obviously good... I am somewhat surprised to see this from my home state.

  5. Re:They only pay you because slavery is illegal. by clone53421 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Free as in speech, or free as in beer?

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