[LINK] Craig Thomson

[Richard Chirgwin]

David - Asterisk has a field in which you set the calling line ID it 
sends. There are legitimate uses, I suppose - for eg, calling out of an 
office, but having return calls come to the call centre.

RC

On 22/05/12 10:08 AM, Jan Whitaker wrote:
> At 08:50 AM 22/05/2012, David Boxall wrote:
>> Assuming for a moment that Mr Thomson is the victim of a setup,
>> manipulation of ICT systems would have played substantial roles. How
>> could that have been achieved?
> I found that interesting, too. Spoofing phone numbers, if you really
> want to, can be done. Heck, they could have swapped out sim cards for
> one thing. He just wouldn't have gotten any phone calls on his phone
> and they could divert calls placed to the number on the replaced sim.
> Anyone could do that. No spoofing needed. Until the proper forensics
> are done, no one knows what really happened. That requires more than
> a guy at FWA writing a report.
>
> I thought his biggest hammer was that some of the times the attackers
> say he was at brothels or with call girls he wasn't even in the
> state. And the one about tying him to a particular place he lived
> AFTER the supposed call was another 'oops'.
>
> I watched the speech and he was believable. There are shonky things
> that happen when someone's good thing is threatened and according to
> his speech, there were many people threatened by his attempt to clean
> things up. They were bound to strike back.
>
> Even if this drags out, which it will, I was pleased to see him stand
> up for himself. He has been denied natural justice. Police
> investigate, DPPs prosecute, courts and juries, judge, media and
> oppositions persecute.
>
> Jan
>
>
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