Comments on: African American ex-computer hacker designs service to fake caller ID (PR)

By: saudia

saudia — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:07:15 +0000

Whatever, there are times when I have to make calls and I don’t want every tom, dick and harry to have my personal phone number. I love it and plan on going to site to check out how much the service cost.

By: joe moakley

joe moakley — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:41:03 +0000

I wish we could use our talents from something a bit more creative and useful. Is this where are minds are? We always want to use our talents for morally questionable things? How about a cure for cancer or something more useful. Sad. Black folks are pathetic.

By: Who cares

Who cares — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:54:37 +0000

Who cares if he’s African American? What does that have to do with anything? What’s up with this site? What’s with all the separatism? Where’s “WhiteGuyProgrammers.com ?” Time to stop being racist nwords – it’s 2009… Maybe?

By: Blackman

Blackman — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:09:24 +0000

This product is one that should be illegal and taken off the market. Anything used to disguise and misrepresent yourself or company is unethical.

By: DarkStar

DarkStar — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 01:55:00 +0000

Maryland is going after this and other such services, believing that it is illegal. People have used it in Maryland for stalking purposes and phishing.

By: BH

BH — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:04:54 +0000

I agree with Bevan. The use of this product is in the very least RUDE if not morally questionable.

By: Bevan Jarreau

Bevan Jarreau — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:19:28 +0000

There’s nothing BUT the wrong hands. If you won’t own who you are, you’ve got NO BUSINESS interrupting other people at home.

If someone “evades paying you money they owe” either use the appropriate legal services to collect it lawfully, or own that you, personally, blew it, and write the money off to charity.

Law enforcement doesn’t need this tool – they already have the ability, the power, and the right to accomplish the same results.

And it may block caller ID, but it doesn’t block the callee reporting you as a harassing call – which bypasses this device and traces it to the actual physical phone line and its assigned number. So maybe we SHOULD encourage the lawless to use it – they’ll be rounded up and stopped quicker.

Aside from that, it’s pretty much illegal for a civilian to use this device anyway.