Comment Re:Kill it! (Score 1) 426
I do that all the time - not the brothel thing, but set my outbound Caller ID to what I want it to be. I am an attorney in solo practice. I work from home frequently, if the project I'm working on doesn't require me to meet with clients or use resources I've got at the office. My answering service E-mails me when I get a phone message. I don't give clients my home phone number, but many people don't accept incoming calls where Caller ID is blocked.
So I use my home Asterisk box to set the outbound Caller ID on my calls to my office number - the people I call can see who's calling, take the call if they want (or not if they don't want), they can call me back at that number if they need to, and they don't get my home phone number. It all works out pretty well.
Granted, the application described in the newspaper articles is a creepy one - but the technique can also be used for good.
So I use my home Asterisk box to set the outbound Caller ID on my calls to my office number - the people I call can see who's calling, take the call if they want (or not if they don't want), they can call me back at that number if they need to, and they don't get my home phone number. It all works out pretty well.
Granted, the application described in the newspaper articles is a creepy one - but the technique can also be used for good.
