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by delinka 3093 days ago
The same way telemarketers fake phone numbers. More surprising to me is that the deeper routing data (as in, the real source of the call, which the phone company necessarily has) is not available. I understand that you want to allow anonymous tips, but it would make sense that if the caller ID data is faked (i.e. the purported number's exchange doesn't match the source), then the data should be made immediately available.
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Seems like a lot of people here really want VOIP to be anonymous/unregistered. You know, so that the nazis can't get you if they seize power. But they also seem loath to acknowledge this desire, particularly in this context.