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- pixelbender, on 10/12/2007, -71/+416You sick idiot. I guess it never occured to you that someone, somewhere might actually be harmed because the police/fire are busy elsewhere? Of course not, you and your "I'm so cool I sit at home all day and mod people up and down on Digg who agree with my important view of how the world is" attitude.
Spoof or not, its still just stupid and not funny. - Matt174e, on 10/12/2007, -45/+206Yeah, totally.
All two of San Fransisco's cops were called into duty for no reason, while a poor black woman was robbed.
Which leads to the next Digg story... "Racist Police in San Fransisco". - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -14/+105My favorite part of the video was the cop trying to understand how spoofing works stating, "I'm not very technical...I shoot people."
Thank god intelligence is a requirement to hold a badge and handle a gun. - AZNL473ncy, on 10/12/2007, -11/+86That's not cool I people can get killed when emergency services respond to those kinds of calls. It wastes resources, and emergency services still can get killed either hitting other cars speeding through the lights or driving on the wrong side of the road and someone not stopping for them.
- crossmr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+66Whats with the crappy hitching in an archived video?
- TastyBaconTreat, on 10/12/2007, -9/+73Looks like it was staged since the first thing he said was "uh someone spoofed my phone as a prank" ^_^
- 6ixed, on 10/12/2007, -3/+62I'm watching his vdeo feed now. It's stupid, boring and addictive.
- Sharkee, on 10/12/2007, -3/+62yeah, most people don't know that Caller ID can be spoofed. There's some websites/phone numbers that will do it for you for a small price
- oddmanout, on 10/12/2007, -9/+68clever pranks tend to not be illegal.
- Matt174e, on 10/12/2007, -0/+58My God, this video is annoying to watch.
I want to turn up the audio and heard what they're talking about, but I keep getting disrupted by a loud buzzing sound.
Dugg for the story. - SoundJudgment, on 10/12/2007, -10/+61I agree completely. Guy was totally ready for it. Figured out what happened in the first five seconds. Right... geek or not, he probably made the call in. Cheap publicity for the Site, and wanted to see 'what would happen' while 'conveniently' having a running WebCam right on his hat.
Keep those hands up, dude. You're practising for the real thing. - penneyisok, on 10/12/2007, -11/+51@DvS01
Intelligence has nothing to do with it. I'd say the vast majority of people (from my experience) have no idea caller ID can be spoofed. I'd also have to bet most cops never heard of the term "web 2.0" or anything like that. Theres jobs not to fix your modem, its to protect people lives.
Do you know how to properly fire a gun or to take down and suspect? Well I guess that must make you dumb than? - Vouksh, on 10/12/2007, -2/+40http://www.d-e-f-i-n-i-t-e-l-y.com/
- hackajar, on 10/12/2007, -3/+40"I'm not technical, I shoot people" - SFPD
- gweedo767, on 10/12/2007, -2/+39The problem is that caller id needs to be able to be modified. Case in point:
I work for a company that has around one hundred numbers that all come into the same office via PRI. Whenever someone calls out from any of those circuits I want our PRIMARY # to show up on people's caller id's, not just the one # they happened to get from that one circuit. Why? Because when they call back I want them to call the number to puts them into my main hunt rollover group. If they call the one # directly, they might get a busy signal, if they call the hunt group number they are good to go. - Supernova36, on 10/12/2007, -2/+36There quite clearly is, buried as an idiot.
- OutThisLife, on 10/12/2007, -8/+34What the hell is Justin.tv?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+30@DvS01:
'My favorite part of the video was the cop trying to understand how spoofing works stating, "I'm not very technical...I shoot people."
Thank god intelligence is a requirement to hold a badge and handle a gun.'
not technical != not intelligent && technical != intelligent.
who do you want going after armed criminals:
The tech guy who has spent years of his life learning about tech stuff or the police guy who has spent years of his life learning how to go after armed criminals.
It is a different kind of intelligence, but not a lesser kind. - Scrappy1850, on 10/12/2007, -4/+29i dont think it would suck that much
- hijinks, on 10/12/2007, -3/+27did you even bother to click on the link? I think not
- penneyisok, on 10/12/2007, -4/+26Well seeing as not long after they started the been getting many spoofed calls (like getting calls from his own number) and many other prank call like this.
The whole cops busting saying that they are there because someone called on HIS cellphone and said there was a stabbing, its pretty obvious what happened.
And soundjudgment, he's 'conveniently' running his cam 24/7 everywhere he goes. - bellisland, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23They knew it was spoofed because people had been calling and spoofing them all day. Also they are Geeks (like many of us) and they know what you can do with the Internet.
- jspegele, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19You're an idiot. It's an archived version of what was a live video on justin.tv. The story is 15 hours old, how long did you think this raid was going to go on?
*foiled by Supernova36* - RyeBrye, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20I suppose cell phone records can prove that the cell phone didn't originate the call - but it can't conclusively prove that those people didn't spoof the call themselves for the free publicity it would generate.
- TylerLavite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15he said that because it has happened 3 times prior
- audiowizard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Dugg down for the horrible grinding noise...fix your audio!!!
- rolosworld, on 10/12/2007, -6/+19viral marketing.. I think they did the call, the guy sounds too suspicious.
- Takuro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14At first I thought the police opened machine gun fire, then I realized it was just the camera messing up
- OrangeTide, on 10/12/2007, -5/+17San Francisco wastes enough of my tax dollars as it is, no need to help the process along with phony phone calls.
as for "clever pranks tend to not be illegal". I'm pretty sure filing a false report is still a felony. - MikeOSX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Did you perhaps, I dunno, read the article?
- gwinerreniwg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Caller ID can be spoofed, but ANI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number_identification) can't. Why do the SFPD, who should be technically savvy rely on CID, and not ANI?
- Hitchhiker90, on 10/12/2007, -9/+20Since its on TechCrunch and Michael Arrington has proven to be a ***** idiot over and over again this article can be safely ignored. The worst part is Michael, whom we'll refer to as the ***** idiot from this point forward, sits there and laughs about the whole thing through out the comments on his site. Perhaps the ***** idiot finds it funny to waste city resources which could be put to better use, but when that ***** idiot needs emergency services he won't be laughing because the police are out serving prank calls instead of him. I can't believe that ***** idiot would help promote this type of criminal behavior. Someone tell that ***** idiot that there is a higher respect for people who protect and serve than his stupid ass blog. To sum it up...
YOU ARE A ***** IDIOT MICHAEL ARRINGTON! - Derrekito, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12The article indicates that they were raided while they were recording live. It did not indicate that clicking a link that was submitted hours ago would still somehow yield a live raid.
/dumbass - Nudar, on 10/12/2007, -6/+16And suddenly every digger knows about justin.tv. Previously about 2 people knew about it. Not sure why that made it such a target for all this spoofing. He answered way too quickly that it was probably somebody spoofing his number.
- emiller, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Anyone read his comments on the blog?
"Personally, I don’t find any of the pranks from the audience amusing — and neither should you, Michael. I don’t know about you, but I personally wouldn’t want the police drawing their weapons on me just so some sick f*ck can get a chuckle.
Justin and his crew are using Justin.TV as a proving ground for technology they’ve developed, and just because the general public is invited to view their lives doesn’t mean it’s an invitation for distasteful — and potential harmful — pranks.
Don’t play with fire, Michael, because given your visibility, you could encourage others to repeat similar pranks. Let’s not join the ranks of the psychos calling the police and ordering pizzas. Instead, let’s appreciate what this is all about: new technology that can be adopted for mass consumption."
Michael's response:
"Ronald - consider my hand slapped.
(but I bet you watched the video)"
What a douchebag. - scotticus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7ha... I just checked justin.tv and he's taking a ***** and reading a magazine
- penneyisok, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8@artanis
Yes he did say that, but if you may not have noticed a few other people already posted that before him. And guess what, those guys didn't hijack the reply to do it. - JamoSmith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Here is the actual video (which does not appear to be linked from the article anymore)
http://www.justin.tv/blog/list/2007-3-21T01:40:0 - darkphoenix939, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8this is CAKE TOWN~!!!
- fletcher008, on 10/12/2007, -0/+610:23am Mar 24 07 pst
justin is taking a crap.
isnt the internet wonderful? - KraigR, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8the video ***** sucked! this dude needs a better webcam if he intends to continue doing this....
- turpenine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@orange, he was saying this prank is not funny.
- Sethwm2, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9Well this is kind of funny. But at the same time I feel bad for the guys on the computers. I also feel bad for the waist of time that it took the police department to look around. That dumb ass that spoofed the caller id should bu put in jail for a long time. It should be a federal offense
- furryplanet, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7The Cop said... "I'm not very technical, I shoot people". Wow!
- atbnet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Uhh wtf kind of site is this? I went to the site and it's a live feed of him taking a *****.
- avcore, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Seriously it made me want to stab myself.
- swgc5, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Madness!!! THIS IS DIGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- PacoDG, on 10/12/2007, -7/+10For free the first couple of times of use http://callitfake.com/
Not as good as I thought it would be, but im sure there are better ones out there, I haven't done good enough research on it yet, please provide more links diggers if you know of any. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5what is that loud buzzing noise?
- Misaiato, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4@gweedo
I also work for a telecom company that provides both residential and business numbers including hunt groups, call centers, and other applications where Caller ID services are frequently requested to be modified to the customer's preference.
heptahedron hit the nail on the head - we populate hunt groups with numbers the customer owns and sometimes DNs that are not routable via the PSTN - in such cases of course a voice gateway needs to perform a digit translation to append a proper DID to a 3 or 4 digit internal extension, making the call routable on the PSTN. However - everything I just said is perfectly legal ONLY if you own the DIDs that you use to translate internal DNs to an external calling line identity.
Our company would get served so hard with so many lawsuits if we just randomly picked calling line IDs out of any 10-digit combination we can dream up. Whomever spoofed that call to emergency services should get served with lawsuits from the City of San Fran and the operators of Justin.tv -
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