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In Sudan it is quite common for people to hunt storks in order to harvest their valuable SIM cards.
by isk517 8y ago
In Sudan it is quite common for people to hunt storks in order to harvest their valuable SIM cards.
- halflings 8y agoGot a link that confirms this? All I find online is this Polish story. If true, that would be pretty ironic (an ecologic charity making storks endangered by tracking them).
- jnbiche 8y agoYou're kidding, but you don't think that once word gets around some desperately poor region that tracker device == free phone calls, people aren't going to try and kill the bird to get the tracker? If you think that's not likely, you've got a lot more faith in humanity than I do.
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- lallysingh 8y agoThen they'll find that the Sim cards are locked and don't work, and will stop wasting their time on them.
- TomMarius 8y agoExcept that they mostly do work
- mynameisvlad 8y agoVoice calls can be disabled remotely on the carrier side. Just because they worked this one instance doesn't mean future ones will. And especially after they had a 2k+ phone bill, you know they're scrambling to lock down any remaining SIM cards out there.
- lstodd 8y agoExcept that they won't stop - maybe the next bird will have a working sim. Besides, it's not like every bird has a tracker. So how many birds one should kill to get a chance to check if the sim is working?
- sergiotapia 8y agoI read they still rape virgins to cure HIV in some regions. I doubt they'll stop stealing SIM cards.
- dzhiurgis 8y agoI think its more of a new PBX hacking vector. Call premium numbers to rake in bills. There are tons of SIM cards all over the place, some easy to access physically, some - electronically.
- flurdy 8y agoIf it wasn't before with this publicity it will be from now on
- braythwayt 8y agoI know this is comment made in jest, but what it brought to mind was the movie "Interstellar," where the protagonist hunts drones in order to salvage their parts. In America.