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There's quite a few countries where you need to show a passport to register a sim card. Not sure if Austria is one.
by looeee 7y ago
There's quite a few countries where you need to show a passport to register a sim card. Not sure if Austria is one.
- citeguised 7y agoIn Austria and Germany you can't get any SIM without ID as of now.
- rmu09 7y agoSo if you are a criminal that needs disposable SIM cards you just pay some cash-strapped person to get a bunch of prepaid ones for you.
- sfifs 7y agoThe point is you have a path to trace if needed. Say some criminal has done that, they've established some kind of contact with the "cash strapped person" to do so - either electronically or in person. Electronic traces are pretty feasible for major nation states to uncover since they're ingesting packet traffic metadata from the whole internet traffic of countries. In-person traces can often be covered by surveillance camera records etc etc. Once there is a point of entry, there is usually a path for entities with governmental powers to investigate.
- codedokode 7y agoIf you are a criminal, then you can just buy SIM cards from someone or from country that doesn't require indetification.
- CompanionCuuube 7y agoDo they also make it illegal to sell SIMs between private parties?
- sim_card_map 7y agoI made a map with all European countries requiring an ID: https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/9ziqfi/european_countries_requiring_registration_of/ https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/9ziqfi/european_cou...
- anticensor 7y agoTurkey goes further and requires registration of phones, too.
- AdrianB1 7y agoTurkey is not an European country. Having a few percents of the territory in Europe does not move you to Europe.
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