Comments on: Oh shag off – Mobile phone registry

By: Mobile Phone Registration - Good or Bad?

Mobile Phone Registration - Good or Bad? — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:29:44 +0000

[...] Damien has a few words to say on the matter [...]

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:36:20 +0000

Mabye Pat Carey, who works in an area badly affected by crime (Finglas), is trying to do something to make up for the failings of Govt. and the prison service.

It won’t work, as foreign SIMS will still make it possible to go unregistered. The DCENR has done the research and it has drawn this conclusion. He definetely should have checked with the department responsible. He’ll get some egg on his face, and there won’t be much more said about it.

Vodafone and O2 separately have my details, and I couldn’t give a shite about that. And I’m not worried about SIM tracking as it actually isn’t possible barring the use of fancy equipment and portable GSM base stations (Robert Holohan in Cork). So where exactly is the issue with this idea, that will go nowhere anyway?

By: Michael Walsh

Michael Walsh — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:34:04 +0000

So what do we do to stop this?

By: Branedy

Branedy — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:40:41 +0000

Being that you can tract any GSM phone via the sim, and hence anyone via a registry tied to a sim. You can tract anyone, including ministers, or civil servants, or meetings between briber and bribed. The possibilities are endless…

By: George

George — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:37:03 +0000

hehee this is funny, what makes them think that people or at least the ones using these phones for illegal purposes will give accurate details?

I mean seriously, cop on like, all this will achieve is making life more frustrating for the average consumer and giving the crims a good oul laugh.

By: tipster

tipster — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:01:08 +0000

“ The Civil Service always want to put as little trust in the people as they can, just in case one day they rise up and demand a reduced place in Government for them”

I wonder where the boundary between “the civil service” and “an idiotic civil servant who had a dumb idea” lies.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:39:00 +0000

I wonder if the idea of registering pay-as-you-go phones came from watching US crime shows like Law and Order — not being able to identify a caller because the phone was prepaid is a fairly standard plot device to add tension.

By: dahamsta » Blog Archive » Mobile Phone Registration

dahamsta » Blog Archive » Mobile Phone Registration — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:24:52 +0000

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