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  1. WTF for? They just can’t help themselves can they?
    I have always had unregistered phones. I once bought a ready to go phone by cash a few years back. The sales guy got really indignant with me when I refused to supply my name and address, but I stood my ground and won. Not sure if you can still get away with that now, but I just use ebay if I want a new phone these days.

  2. Registering phone details! Good grief, I was wondering that myself only this morning.

    Sadly I can see it coming soon enough – and would not be surprised if they want to register MAC addresses of computer kit too.

  3. A bid to cut crime?

    So a criminal who wants to use a mobile that isn’t registered to him won’t think to just use one from the kidnap victim?

    Or just ‘borrow’ one from the nearest vulnerable kid/woman. And while taking the ‘phone might as well relieve them of any other valuables?

    That probably won’t be allowed to count as a crime though (it would show their policy up), so maybe say that the victim shouldn’t have been using a mobile as doing so incited the attack?

    Most of these points are already covered in the comments to that story. What sort of country is that that let’s the stupid ones rule while letting the criminals run riot? Er…

  6. And the Kenyans are not the first. Bangladesh did it some six or nine months ago. A bandwagon is starting to roll.

    Add in SOCA’s current demand that all domain name registrations list the checked and true identity of the registrant so that “The registrant is a non-trading individual who has opted to have their address omitted from the WHOIS service.” will no longer be allowed. They are determined that “nothing to hide, nothing to fear” will rule the roost.

  7. “…would not be surprised if they want to register MAC addresses of computer kit too…”

    Because, of course, it’s completely impossible to spoof or change MAC addresses.

    There’s even a GUI to do it in Windows.

    Duh.

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