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VoIP hacks gut Caller I.D.
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2004-07-06

Implementation quirks in Voice over IP are making it easy for hackers to spoof Caller I.D., and to unmask blocked numbers.

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Carrier's Fault 2004-07-07
B Vincent
This is clearly the fault of the carrier. The problem is occuring at the IP/PSTN interface and it appears the VOIP carriers are letting caller ID be set by the PBX (in this case Asterisk VOIP.) No one could reasonably do this in their home because they'd be using a regular 1FB line that can't set ...

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