[Cryptography] More Bad Govt Shit To Fight (Burner Verizon FBI)

[Henry Baker]

At 08:34 PM 3/25/2016, grarpamp wrote:
>https://politics.slashdot.org/story/16/03/25/2047211/bill-introduced-to-require-id-when-purchasing-burner-phones

It'll be interesting to see how this bill is received.

IMHO the vast majority of these phones -- at least here in California -- are used by undocumented residents, who have no papers, no driver's licenses, no bank accounts, and operate 100% on cash.

Since when do you need a driver's license or a credit card to use a phone?  These people take the bus!

In any case, we'll soon see "phones" which dispense with the 3G/4G part and use wifi only (e.g., iPod "Touch", only a heck of a lot cheaper; a lot of parents already give their kids iPod Touches because they don't want them using up minutes).  Since these wifi-only "phones" don't use licensed spectrum, they don't require SIM cards.

These phones are ATT/Verizon/Sprint's nightmare come true, and also NSA, because NSA piggybacks off the cellular carriers' metadata.