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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 04:47:02 -0800
- From: Dan_Cook@f344.n202.z1.fidonet.org
- Subject: three way calling gives security (Was: Caller ID products?)
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- BT> This same trick applies whether or not you dial out
- BT> on the same or different
- BT> line as people dial in to. If someone finds out the
- BT> phone numbers of your
- BT> outgoing lines, they can spoof you unless you do
- BT> something like this or get
- BT> the phone company to block incoming calls.
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- Blocking incomming calls (creating an outbound only line) is as easy
- as setting call forwarding on the line. My favorite number to forward
- such lines to is the quiet termination test number in the local CO.
- Anyone who calls the number gets dead air.
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- - Dan
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