Re: Overheard on the scanner

rkshullat@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> 
> The "caller ID" shown by caller ID phones uses a different mechanism
> and a different information source than that accessible to emergency
> services, toll-free providers and some others. They have access to the
> unblockable (phreakers excepted) calling party number information used
> for things like long distance billing. The biggest problem for the 911
> system is inaccurate or incomplete data in the database that maps phone
> numbers to addresses.

And VoIP providers who only track billing addresses, not the addresses
of the physical connections.

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