sirwoogie
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| Fraught with abuse potential
OK, I want to be positive in these types of activities, but this just seem much to sensitive to abuse in a multitude of ways once it hits the PSTN:
•Telemarketers could use this to bypass any rules for PSTN transactions.
•Any CallerID information passed to the receiving party will be YOUR information, not the originator of the call. Of course, this could be disabled to not send anything (*67), but the trace of it will still come back to the one offering the call-out. I could see legal problems all over this.
•Any type of abuse of the line (prank, threats, etc) would also trace back to the one offering the call-out. I see no AUP on Jeff's site, so there is no reason he has to offer up any type of tracking mechanism. Thus, the call-out provider is left holding the legal bag.
Nobody ever though email would turn into a SPAM ridden space, but it did. Unscrupulous people will twist this "good-faith" technology and destroy it. I'm an avid FWD and Vonage user, but I just don't see this being a plausible technique. |
