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by razakel 412 days ago
>I can walk into my nearest teleco branch with my ID if I lose my phone and change the SIM to another phone.

And I can do the same pretending to be you, or simply bribe the minimum-wage cashier who doesn't really care.

Do they even have a flag for highly sensitive accounts, e.g. set off an alarm if someone tries to issue a new SIM for the President?