Re: [Shutup] Proposed Charter for the "SMTP Headers Unhealthy To User Privacy" WG

["Robert A. Rosenberg" <[e-mail]>]

At 19:15 -0500 on 12/06/2015, Chris Lewis wrote about Re: [Shutup] 
Proposed Charter for the "SMTP Headers Unhealt:

>On 12/06/2015 04:10 PM, Martijn Grooten wrote:
>>On Sun, Dec 06, 2015 at 02:59:54PM -0500, Chris Lewis wrote:
>>>I was never so glad as to see something as the wide-scale deployment
>>>of callerid a few years later.
>>
>>But for Caller ID to work in cases like the one you describe, you
>>wouldn't need to know the phone number (which often includes the
>>location) of the caller; a "cryptographic blob" identifying their phone
>>line would suffice.
>
>The proper analog is "Call Trace".  You dial a * code, and the 
>calling number gets recorded by the telco, but it can only be 
>retrieved via a LE process (I do not believe it requires a full 
>search warrant, but, joe-blow citizen certainly can't get it).  It 
>cannot be disabled (but presumably spoofable) by the caller.

The *-code you are referencing is *57 (1157 from a dial phone) and 
records the ANI (Call Setup and Routing) information not the 
spoof-capable CALLERID information. I think about am not sure that 
the information is accurate and can not be spoofed/faked. Note that 
the called party must use the code before another call comes in and 
the TelCo charges you when you use it.

Here is a Wikipedia article on the code/feature. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malicious_caller_identification