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dave (dav@erols.com) wrote:
: 	You sound very knowlegable about CNID however, as a computer geek with
: 15 years of online experience I've seen many an 'impossible' hack
: committed.  If someone had the specs on the signals sent between the
: caller id box and the telco I imagine that they could possibly invent a
: spoof solution.

Stipulated, anything can be hacked.  The problem here is that, assuming
you _haven't picked up the phone yet_, the design of the _switch_,
_something the hacker cannot touch_, prohibits this particular hack.

You can't get audio through the switch during the ring cycles.

Period.

Changing this requires rebuilding the line cards.

Forcing the _switch_ to send bogus CNID is HIGHLY non-trivial as well.

Cheers,
-- jr 'Deej?  Help!! :-)' a
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