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by sushsjsuauahab 1672 days ago
>So that nobody does anything naughty

Ah yes, now I know why all of those shootings and mass murders happened in the Turkish airport-- there was no system for mapping identities to SIM cards!!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Atatürk_Airport_attack

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The security aspect was more of a pretext to force people purchase the heavily taxed officially imported mobile phones.

Obviously, the usefulness for prevention of such attacks would be limited, it's more about identifying the offenders. It's also useful for surveillance, as you would expect a totalitarian state would like.