Originally posted by DoctorYO
Are you fellas living in the 50's with POTS network (Plain ole telephone system)
all calls on todays phone system are able to be traced.. Mandated by congress a while ago.. (hence the voice over IP debates/mandates etc in congress now) If they want to find you, you are not anonomous. (As proof note your nice little phone bill every month records every call, now apply that to their end.. or watch some court TV; the suprised look on peoples faces when legal teams start throwing phone evidence around..(pen taps, traces, voice mail taps etc..) protect yourself.. but i would give whatever info you got, could lead to cracking the case... sounds serious with murder, even thug life murder deserves justice)
just FYI
digital world we live in cuts like a double edged sword..
DoctorYo
Well I do agree with some of what your saying here...thus the term "drop a dime" (though may relate back to the day when it only cost a dime to make a call from a pay phone), I was not suggesting he call from home but from a pay phone, or even the hospital where he is working at...
And while it is true that most phone systems can be traced and "tapped" as required by the CALEA standards the police require judicial authorization to conduct such traces and taps. This in it self is not an easy task and the burden is on the police to justify the intercept. In regards to VOIP, I would imagine the arguments in your congress are over whether or not to make them meet the CALEA standards, same thing going on in Canada as well.
Also, a side note, most police "Crime Stoppers" or "TIPS" lines do not subscribe to call display and it is highly unlikely that they would attempt to identify a tipster, by doing so they would jeopardize their whole crime stoppers program and would not likely get many more calls.
