---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 23:19:13 -0400 From: Sal Denaro <Sal@panix.com> To: sunder@escape.com Newgroups: alt.cypher-punks Subject: Re: CALLER ID AVOIDANCE (fwd) <<<<<< INTERJECTION: I didn't write the message Sal's replying to, Sandy did. Sal's on my 'filtered' cypherpunx list. :-) -- Ray. >>>>>>> In article <Pine.BSD/.3.91.950724140311.25983F-100000@escape.com>, Ray Arachelian <sunder@escape.com> kept the nurses distracted long enough to write:
SANDY SANDFORT C'punks,
While reading the July issue of Soldier of Fortune, I ran across an ad for yet another telephone anonymity service. It reads:
CALL 1-900-CUT TRAX
Secure your most sensitive calls from all forms of caller I.D. and return-call technologies?
Now make calls from your own telephone safely and anonymously. No need to find a public phone to be discreet.
If they are a Licensed Interchange Carrier they must (by law) provided call records and caller id information on court order. If they fail to answer the court order they could loose the right to operate as a LIC. If they are not a fully licensed carrier, they can have all equipment impounded if they do not honor the court order. Ask anyone who knows telco-law. Let's say you call someone with call-id and do something silly like tell them "I'm going to kill you and your boyfriend, leave my bloody glove at the scene and drive away in my white ford bronco." This scares them. The person calls the cops. The cops call the number on caller id. They track down the service and tell the service- "Give up the call records or get closed down." What do you think the carrier will do? I say this all the time, if you want privacy- Don't use the phone. Here are some things I've heard: (Not responsible for blah blah...) 1) Most caller ID equipment will not display Caller ID from calls made at IDSN phones. 2) Most digital cell-phones have the same quirk. 3) Call-id does not work when calls are made from digital PBXs in Japan. 4) Call-id does not work when calls are made from digital PBXs in most parts of east-block Europe. 5) This happens only in Nynex land and will be fixed by 1997. (yes, 1997) -- Salvatore Denaro sal@panix.com I waited for the joke/It never did arrive. Yes, I use PGP Words I thought I'd choke/I hardly recognize.