I understand the current security issues with Caller-ID, and I feel camophone.com isn't doing anything wrong by offering this service. If it wasn't them it would be someone else, and they're actually offering a benefit by letting people know there's an issue that needs to be dealt with.

But I also believe it would be in the consumer's best interests to make Caller-ID reasonably secure. True, we shouldn't "rely on it 100%" -- no security mechanism is foolproof -- but the current situation makes it worse than useless. People should be able to reliably know who is calling them, and I see more harm than good in the ability to easily spoof phone numbers.

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