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michaelt on Oct 31, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Iran can track and control protesters’ phones:...

Without wanting to sound negative, as long as the cell network's function is to ensure that when someone dials 1-234-567-8901 my phone rings, won't they always need to know my phone's location, and the number-to-handset mapping?

aendruk on Oct 31, 2022 [–]

That much is guaranteed, so people get a second phone number for use during protests.

The problem highlighted in the article is that merely changing your phone number isn’t enough if you continue to use the same physical phone.

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