[ic] Phone Number Lookup

Kevin Walsh kevin at cursor.biz
Tue May 22 17:07:37 EDT 2007


Steve Graham <icdev at mrlock.com> wrote:
> > I imagine you'd get so many false negatives that you wouldn't be able
> > to spot the real security risks.  Also it clearly won't work as a
> > validation tool for overseas orders.  Lastly, if address info is
> > returned then you'll get a load of false negatives where people
> > mis-spell their address.  That happens surprisingly often.
> >
> If it produces valid info for USA telephone address date I thought it 
> might be useful to query the database after the sale, just as a 
> secondary source of address validation prior to shipment, and maybe 
> just on sales larger than some dollar value, say $500.00. It is not 
> terrible expensive.
> 
It's certainly something you could do if you were suspicious of an
order.  If there is a positive match then the lookup would have been
very helpful.  I just don't think that I'd want to draw conclusions
from the result if it came back negative.

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