Jess👾JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange
Nov 9, 2026, 5:27 PM@mhoye These countries don't bother with that sort of stuff as much anymore because they can just hack the phones over the wire by making them fall for some spearphish...
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mhoyemhoye@cosocial.caNov 9, 2026, 5:31 PM@JessTheUnstill Most of the time they don't even need a scheme that complicated, really. In a lot of places (Singapore, Poland, others in my personal experience) you need to present your passport to get a local SIM card. But they do that specifically to send a message; in Heathrow you buy your SIM with a credit card, which amounts to the same thing.