On June 27, 2007, the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation passed S.704, a bill that would make it a crime to spoof caller ID. Dubbed the “Truth in Caller ID Act of 2007″, the bill would outlaw causing “any caller identification service to transmit misleading or inaccurate caller identification information” via “any telecommunications service or IP-enabled voice service”. Law enforcement is exempted from the rule.
A similar bill, HR251, was recently introduced and passed in the House of Representatives, making it a real possibility of becoming law. It has been referred to the same Senate committee that approved S.704; that committee has not yet acted on it, nor has the Senate bill been sent to the floor.
Problem is the ammendment seems to very specifically preclude any communications that take place on the Internet or other non-telecomunications network that isn’t transmitted via both IP and TCP, or any successor protocols of IP and TCP used in conjuction that may follow them.
Some believe that the lU.S. Legislature’s lack of technical knowledge may be introducing a very interesting loophole for a potential attacker’s attorney to exploit when going to trial.
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