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The detail I remember is how they identified the dead. They would find the person's phone. Pop the SIM card into another phone. Call people on the contacts unt
by btilly 2y ago
The detail I remember is how they identified the dead.
They would find the person's phone. Pop the SIM card into another phone. Call people on the contacts until they found someone who recognized the number. Ask the name, record it and ask if that person can notify the next of kin of another tsunami victim.
Then they'd move on to the next body and look for another phone.
- TacticalCoder 2y ago> Pop the SIM card into another phone. Call people on the contacts until they found someone who recognized the number. So no PIN on the SIM and contacts stored inside the SIM? I wonder on which percentage of the victims it worked.
- btilly 2y agoThis was 2004. I think that PINs on SIM cards were uncommon. In the video that I watched, it worked 2x in a row.
- Generic_Type 2y agoPINs on SIMs are still very uncommon in India. No more contacts on SIM though. It was a common practice back then though, as it was easy to swap phones, as long as you didn’t have so many contacts that they wouldn’t fit on the SIM.