Comment How can faking a call back number be remotelylegal (Score 2, Interesting) 159
Looking at the US today, how can providing an incorrect call back number not lead immediatly to an FBI investigation?
Sure the general police don't really care because they don't understand this, but this is "interfereing with the operation of computer network" (yes the phone system does count as a computer network) and the phone network is a vital civil infrastructure. We know from past things interfering with a computer network, even a small scale private one, can actually lead to very serious charges. The phone networks is much more important (than some universities database accesses).