Congress Moves to Outlaw Caller ID Spoofing
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oh give me a freakin break
i have spoof apps on my phone and my friends and family get a kick out of them when i call. this is unjust and illegal, always taking fun stuff away from people. i bet bill collectors can still use these tactics and congress will over look it probably. its all a sham
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not to mention spoof apps are an excellent way to call someone about a car on craigslist for instance and you just want information or an unknown number back without revealing it was you calling back. it's another protection of privacy, that's all.
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And that would be all well and good, except the criminal few ruin it for the rest of us. I enjoy blowing thing up on the 4th of July, but it's illegal to set off anything more than a smoke bomb here in Ohio without permits and a firetruck on site. It doesn't mean I don't do it anyhow, but the people who aren't safe about it and lose their fingers have destroyed my annual patriotic fun for the rest. The majority of laws work this way - a handful of people are the reason behind any of these thing being put into place to "protect" the rest of us.
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flip mode said:
not to mention spoof apps are an excellent way to call someone about a car on craigslist for instance and you just want information or an unknown number back without revealing it was you calling back. it's another protection of privacy, that's all.
Use a pay phone. 😳
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What pay phones? The FEDs are taking away & disservicing pay phones little by little. Their way of fighting crime, since pay phone are usually found in older, lower income neighborhoods with a history of crime & drugs. Aka drug deals thru pay phones. Cell phones are doing away with this as well.
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There's a pay phone at the gas station closest to my house, and my neighborhood is not at all low income/high drug + crime rates.
/shrug.
It was just an idea.
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Lol I feel U. I just moved to a nice neighborhood & we have 1 payphone but its by the train tracks. My old neighborhood had a payphone on every corner & whenever I visit I see more & more torn down. I feel like the govt is forcing us towards cellphones to keep a better eye on us. Idn, Im paranoid.
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It's an unknown number with all zeros and stuff.
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