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It's to track crimes associated with burner sims. * Not trying to justify it either direction.
by aplummer 7y ago
It's to track crimes associated with burner sims.
* Not trying to justify it either direction.
- vbezhenar 7y agoI wonder does it help? I'm sure that it's easy to find some homeless person, who don't know you and register SIM for his ID.
- nl 7y agoIt helps a lot. It isn't for tracking homeless people. It's for building network graphs of calls from burner phones to organised crime people. Most of the time the burners are useless, but once you have a cluster of them you can automatically do data matching on them all, and sometimes (often!) they got lazy on a couple and used the same identities to buy them. Once you have a few using the same identity then you track that identity down. The friction in forcing identification means that lazy criminals at the bottom of the structure at some point forget to do it.