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You can literally go into almost any corner shop in the UK and buy a SIM with no ID and cash. I do this regularly.
by fullspectrumdev 2y ago
You can literally go into almost any corner shop in the UK and buy a SIM with no ID and cash.
I do this regularly.
- aembleton 2y agoAre you regularly swapping SIMs? Are you keeping the same IMEI number?
- alibarber 2y agoIf you're hacking around with phones or GSM boards for fun, on and off, it is cost effective to just grab one for a pound or so every time you want to do something as they sometimes come with a tiny bit of free data, or just a number to receive SMS on at least. If you don't top up (with say a tenner) within some months the card deactivates and becomes useless, so it's a no-commitment way to access the GSM network.
- worstspotgain 2y agoAny chance your purchase triggers the ~238 surveillance cameras on your route back from the store to get a good idea of who they're dealing with? The UK used to be a surveillance outlier, but sadly other places have caught up in the meantime, including the US.
- fullspectrumdev 2y agoIt’s ok. Only about 2 of them will record anything resembling a usable image - the rest are either broken, potato quality, pointing at nothing, or recording to media that’s so fucked that it’s highly unlikely to capture anything useful. Not to mention the vast majority of them are privately owned and require a shit tonne of paperwork for the cops to access them, so they don’t bother unless it’s a murder case.
- adonovan 2y agoNonetheless the coverage was enough for highly motivated law enforcement agencies to reconstruct almost every step of the paths taken by the Russian assassins, sorry, “sports nutritionists”, when they paid a visit to the UK to nourish a certain enemy of Russia with Novichok.