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Someone is going to have to take one for the team and SIM swap a senator if we ever want that requirement in the states.

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Except they'll just punish the "hacker", make a big fuss about it, then the Telco's will donate money to the senator till they drop it.

> will donate money

Sakari (and the likes) will complain that government regulation is keeping the food of the hard workers table, and the gov has no right to intervene to the free market!!

In parallel they will 'lobby' (or as we call it in Europe "bribe") the key politicians and ask to a) either change that Bill down to the point that it is rendered useless, or b) cancel it altogether, and stock market will go up!!

Followed by a six month government contractor bidding process, two years of development hell, and a half-based solution that either doesn't work or requires fifty extra convoluted steps.

And a monthly "Regulatory Recovery Fee" to make the customers pay for it in perpetuity.

Nah, it's cheaper and easier for them to mandate that the companies take care of it.

They do but then the companies pay it forward to their customers. There’s a whole list of itemized fees on a cellular bill. Those aren’t collected “for” the government. The company is just itemizing it for you, probably so that they can neglect to advertise it in their contract sticker price.

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