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- From: jthomas@kolanut.mitre.org (Joe Thomas)
- Subject: Re: Caller ID solution? (was Re: ACLU/EFF and Scanner restrictions?)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.183538.2686@linus.mitre.org>
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- Organization: The MITRE Corporation
- References: <1992Dec11.201523.546@uswmrg.mrg.uswest.com.mrg.uswest.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 18:35:38 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec11.201523.546@uswmrg.mrg.uswest.com.mrg.uswest.com>
- chris@engineer.mrg.uswest.com (Chris Fedde) writes:
- > >
- > >Joe Thomas posts a simple and elegant solution to the problem of
- > >"rights" in conflict with respect to Caller ID.
-
- Gosh, thanks :^)
-
- > > However, it
- > >would produce an annoying delay in many phone calls. Far easier
- > >(since the caller should assume he WILL be IDed) would be an
- > >announcement or special tone on lines that don't ID. Thus that
- > >could be used for suicide prevention lines, etc., a legitimate
- > >place to provide assurance of no ID. This would have the result
- > >of interfering with the fewest calls.
-
- To which, in article <1992Dec11.195156.8120@netcom.com>, strnlght@netcom.com
- (David Sternlight) replies:
- >
- > OK I've got a PBX in my basement. Here's what
- > I'm going to do. I'm going to start an anonymous dialer service.
- > you dial up my service and register with the autoattendant. from then
- > on when a call arrives with your ID the pbx will pick up and present you
- with
- > a dial tone. You are then free to dial what ever number you want and I'll
- send you a bill for any charges you may incure.
- >
- > What do you think?
-
- Sure, that will work, too. But I doubt that everyone, every time they make a
- call will want to go through an anonymous dialer. The Caller-ID
- announcement/tone is still a good solution for finding out whether or not you
- want to use an anonymous dialer. Having a tone only when Caller-ID is not in
- use doesn't seem too useful. By the time you realize there's not going to be
- a tone, your number has already been passed and it's too late to do anything
- about it.
-
- There are some practical problems with anonymous dialers, too. If your
- dialout provider isn't trustworthy, they could still log your ID and pass it
- to law enforcement if LE asks for it--they might get harassed and threatened
- if they don't. What LE could legally do about uncooperative redialers
- remains to be seen. Dialing through a convoluted network of redialers can
- minimize these problems, but this rapidly becomes very inconvenient.
-
- Joe
-