CallerID Spoofing to be Made Illegal

MadJo writes "US Congress has just approved a bill that will make it illegal to spoof CallerID. From the bill: 'The amount of the forfeiture penalty (...) shall not exceed $10,000 for each violation, or 3 times that amount for each day of a continuing violation, except that the amount assessed for any continuing violation shall not exceed a total of $1,000,000 for any single act or failure to act.'"

Re:Does this mean...

[Harmonious Botch]

Does this mean I won't be able to call my ex girlfriend up at 3am with a phone number she doesn't recognize, and proceed to breathe heavily into the phone?

We gotcha covered. Post her number and the friendly folks here at slashdot will do it for you.

All For It

[Bios_Hakr]

Good, now I'll stop getting cold calls from "caller unknown". If my phone displays "caller unknown", I just made $10k.

Upside-down.

[node 3]

Leave it to Slashdot to predictably label fraud as a "feature" and laws designed to prevent it "nannystate".

Re:Does this mean...

[Anonymous Coward]

Does this mean I won't be able to call my ex girlfriend up at 3am with a phone number she doesn't recognize, and proceed to breathe heavily into the phone?

We gotcha covered. Post her number and the friendly folks here at slashdot will do it for you.

Hell yeah! GP can post his own number too if he likes.

"Do you use Linux too? Oh yeah! What distro do you like? Are you at the command line right now? Unnnhhhh!"

Re:Does this mean...

[prockcore]

Nah, the real number is 202-456-1414 her name is Laura.

Re:Interesting

[Grendel70]

Feature: (n) - A bug with seniority.

Re:Does this mean...

[cerberusss]

Don't call this number, everyone! It's not his ex-girlfriend, it's his mother!

Re:Does this mean...

[WK2]

But seriously, I think it's a good idea. They've closed the door to many a tele-scammer.

Yes. Because, as everyone knows, scammers will never break the law.