Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!lll-winken!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: lim@csvax.caltech.edu (Kian-Tat Lim) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: 976 WAKE - up Service in California Message-ID: Date: 10 Apr 89 06:42:31 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 12 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 131, message 2 of 11 Ummm... From the description given of the wake-up service ("entering his own telephone number"), it appears that it would be quite easy to annoy my enemies (for $2/day), without my having to be awake to place the crank call. As this service is presumably provided by a company separate from PacBell, the call would also be a little more difficult to trace. This kind of service would be much more secure if Calling Party ID were implemented for it, and such usage of CPID should not be objectionable to civil libertarians. -- Kian-Tat Lim (ktl@wagvax.caltech.edu, KTL @ CITCHEM.BITNET, GEnie: K.LIM1)