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Internet Workaround Bypasses Caller ID

  • September 02, 2004

How much do you think it would cost for a group of software engineers to overturn the advantage of having Caller ID to protect your privacy? Try just 65 lines of computer code and $3,000. Star38 is a new computerized service enabling businesses to create false outbound phone numbers with a click of a mouse, so they can sidestep Caller ID. Introduced yesterday, the service is the first commercial version of a technology known mainly among software programmers and the computer-hacker...