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1) Building up a tree of accounts from anonymous services like mailinator and anonymously bought sim cards and phones
2) Hijacking random people's equipment in order to do 1.
By banning anonymous services, people will have to turn to temporary hijacking to achieve the same ends.
Dang, I wonder what would happen if someone were to use fake ID "issued" the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh.
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Presumably all european nations will harmonize in the next year or two and it will be a requirement to provide government identification prior to purchasing a data SIM.
Why is that presumable?
And again, a new measure that will affect everybody except criminals, who pay a drug addict to register hundreds of these cards.
Well, only the criminals that put some effort. Somewhat effective at tracking down the lazy criminals. Also, in places like Singapore, you can only own 5 Data SIMs before they start asking tougher questions. I wasn't aware there were countries that you could purchase data SIMs in without having to hand over passport/government ID, I'd just assumed that was a ubiquitous practice.
Thankfully because there's no roaming in the EU, there's absolutely no other way to get an unregistered SIM card to work in Germany..
Presumably all european nations will harmonize in the next year or two and it will be a requirement to provide government identification prior to purchasing a data SIM.
Obviously if I knew I could have just bought one off a shelf I would have.
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Presumably all european nations will harmonize in the next year or two and it will be a requirement to provide government identification prior to purchasing a data SIM.
An ID is required in France (and presumably in other EU countries) to buy a SIM card and has been for some years... and yet no harmonization has taken place.
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I don't know about Germany, but a friend of mine visited London without roaming, and I was surprised that he achieved pretty much constant connectivity. There is almost not a single restaurant, coffee shop, airport or train without free wifi.
That's completely different in Germany, because here everyone with an internet access is legally liable for any misconduct done using their connection. There are movements to change this, but Germany still is the country with the lowest free-wifi coverage worldwide (I assume).