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Because nobody sells phone for cash, right?
by alextingle 13y ago
Because nobody sells phone for cash, right?
- kissickas 13y agoGP still has a valid point, SIM card swapping as mentioned in the article is not track-proof.
- fnordfnordfnord 13y agoWell fine there's cloning a phone, setting a bogus or duplicate IMEI, or simply buying cheap throw-away phones. Here, have a look at a really terribly done video of one electronics market in HK. One of many. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxTR5X0PIP4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxTR5X0PIP4
- pyre 13y agoThe idea behind "swapping SIMs" to avoid being tracked assumes that the phone itself can't be identified and tracked (regardless of the SIM card in it). Once one of your SIM cards can be identified as belonging to you (maybe you break down and call a relative), it can be linked to the phone. If the phone can be tracked, then all of the other SIM cards that you use with it can be linked together, regardless of the whether or not the original purchase of the phone or SIM cards can be linked to you (cash vs. card).
- reeses 13y agoI think he's referring to the artificial security based on swapping SIMs into the same phone, since both can be tracked. In fact, with appropriate metadata[1], this could poison a number of SIMs and phones if they were ever passed between handsets and/or people. Now I'm imagining the trouble one could cause with a cell-phone recycling bin at Best Buy. [1] Yeah, I know.