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Posted by berlianta 5 days ago

FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs(www.404media.co)
https://archive.is/ZobUQ
585 points | 389 commentspage 6
AtlasBarfed 5 days ago|
It will simply go through a reseller layer
trumpdong 5 days ago||
This is already a thing in most countries btw
OsrsNeedsf2P 5 days ago|
Which is depressing
trumpdong 5 days ago||
Fun fact: in India, it is a crime to connect the IP network to the telephone network in any way whatsoever that allows calls originating in IP to terminate at telephones. This is because IP network users don't have to provide ID. (It does not prohibit calling from telephones to IP networks, or IP apps calling other instances of themselves)
ncrc74 5 days ago||
Can't read the article without an account.
MyMemoryfails 5 days ago||
so instead of burnerphones, they will steal phones and keep phone awake until they have accomplished the crime they gonna do.

This is what always happens when governments enforce laws like this, victims and innoncents always suffer as result.

Its happening in finance where criminals groom dumb teengers for laundering money, or eldery's bank accounts they obtain via installing remote software.

So lets add 1 more reason for criminals to steal phone.

Edit: This is also happening in crypto world where criminals perform fake KYC. I guess with age verifications, this crime will increase in demand multiplefold and the last defense ID will be obsolete after data leaks and the fraud happening around it.

amelius 5 days ago||
This will kill so many movie plots.
shevy-java 5 days ago||
They want perpetual monitoring of everyone. Same with age sniffing.

Anyone still has any doubts? Or is it to ... protect the children?

jewdus 5 days ago|
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tvhamme 4 days ago||
Woow next level
zoom6628 5 days ago||
Straight out of China playbook. Every SIM must be registered with government issued/recognised ID. Yes combats fraud. Yes means govt can track you thru IMEI 24x7 anywhere in the world.
bondolo 5 days ago||
And yet, for some reason, it is impossible to stop spam calls and texts.
dredmorbius 5 days ago|
Having looked into the history of call tracking / blocking, it's pretty evident that major US telcos have very little interest in making marketing calls difficult. However tenuous the association between "marketing" and the actual practice of the scammers, harassers, abusers, and worse generating literally billions of such calls monthly (see: <https://pirg.org/edfund/resources/ringing-in-our-fears-2025-...>, "The monthly average of scam and telemarketing calls increased from 2.14 billion a month in 2024 to 2.56 billion a month through September, according to YouMail").

AT&T's efforts to thwart effective government regulation and mitigation stand out especially. The industry oranisation ATIS (<https://atis.org/>) has been central to blocking any effective action. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_for_Telecommunication...>.

rusk 5 days ago|
They’ll get around to guns eventually …
greenavocado 5 days ago||
They're already trying to regulate the shape of guns to effectively outlaw everything but the bullet.
rusk 5 days ago||
Hopefully they tax th bejeesus out of bullets too. Who was the comedian “imma gona pop a cap in yo ass, but first imma set up a layaway”
fridder 5 days ago||
Chris Rock. And honestly probably the easiest way for gun control
Nasrudith 5 days ago||
Not really, at least with current SOTA for ammunition. Reloading has long been a thing for high volume shooters.
fridder 3 days ago||
Right who, at least in my experience, tend to be a bit more responsible gun owners. It would be interesting to study that.
rusk 1 day ago||
It’s not the responsible gun owners people are worried about- it’s the ones who hide in their shadow
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