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- From: BrianW@SoundS.WA.com (Brian Willoughby)
- Subject: Re: Caller ID block?
- Message-ID: <Bzv1MH.E7y@sounds.wa.com>
- Sender: brianw@sounds.wa.com (Brian Willoughby)
- Reply-To: BrianW@SoundS.WA.com
- Organization: SoundSoftware, Bellevue, WA, USA
- References: <1992Dec23.010226.12447@tc.fluke.COM>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 09:42:17 GMT
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- Gary Benson writes
- | To me the issue is very clear:
- |
- | PRIVATE line should be permitted to have all incoming callers identified,
- | preferably by caller's name, but if not, then software can certainly be
- | obtained for my home computer that will do a quick look-up.
- |
- | BUSINESS NUMBERS, though must NEVER be permitted to learn the identity of
- | their callers, lest every phone call be logged resulting in even more abuse
- | of citizen's right to privacy as lists of calls are bought and sold.
-
- When you call my BUSINESS, you'll be calling my PRIVATE line. Hard to enforce
- your policies (but I'm not saying I don't like them). Only the illegal
- businesses will get your phone number if you trust the system.
-
- No matter what develops from this CNID mess, the real moral is: don't trust a
- system based on machines (phones). CNID doesn't tell you who's calling, and
- there's never a guarantee that the FEDs aren't listening through a back door
- that they legislated into place.
- --
- Brian Willoughby Software Design Engineer, BSEE NCSU
- BrianW@SoundS.WA.com Sound Consulting and Signal Processing Software
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