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• GuidoDavid commented on Mexico to fingerprint mobile-phone owners
  I forgot to say about the Venezuelan law: You MUST provide a landline number, if you do not, you cannot buy a cell phone, which is pretty stupid for people that has not a landline. And minors cannot buiy cellphones, when my little brother got one, I had to sign the papers....
• Takuan commented on Mexico to fingerprint mobile-phone owners
  so there must be a huge phone cloning business....
• Germanico commented on Mexico to fingerprint mobile-phone owners
  Patricio: The guns mexican soldiers carry are Heckler & Koch G3 rifles, manufactured under license by the Secretary of National Defense. They also manufacture a number of small caliber arms te be sold to permit-carrying civilians. This is the only way a mexican civilian can legally purchase a gun. All other legal permits are to legitimize guns aquired in the grey market. As for the issue in hand, the mind blowing naivete of mexican lawpassers (calling them "lawmakers" would be an overstatement). The logic behind the bill is that, cell phones are being used to commit crimes (extorsions and fraud)...
• GuidoDavid commented on Mexico to fingerprint mobile-phone owners
  Takuan: As far as I know, cloning is not huge, but you always can find a shop openly advertised where they can swap your number to other phone, even if it hasn't a SIM card. And cellphones are stolen pretty much all the time, and there is a huge underground net of second hand phones and plenty of private phone booths where you can anonimyze your calls....
• Mister N commented on Mexico to fingerprint mobile-phone owners
  I agree with Germanicci. That law will put at risk the common citizen's personal data. How are they going to acquire this data?. Ink and paper?, digitally?. If so, if it's on paper it'll be the precise thing that the criminals who use cellphones will be after, so that they shovel them around the country. Electronic?..then it's hackable and therefore you can copy all that information, use it, sell it, etc. So, they're only creating another black market instead of solving the problem of having easy accessible cellphone and protecting the companies that make and distribute them ( and also...