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Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@ohno_itsnate" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ohno_itsnate</span></a></span> Granted, the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> is a garbage market in terms of devices and networks, <em>way worse</em> than <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Germany</span></a> was in the 1990s cuz even then <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NetLock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NetLock</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SimLock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SimLock</span></a> was so unpopular that no <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/postpaid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>postpaid</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/customer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>customer</span></a> accepted those and even in <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/prepaid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prepaid</span></a> with subsidized handsets they got basically boycotted out of the market in the early 2000s.</p><p>I do acknowledge that <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>GrapheneOS</span></a></span> has valid reasons why they keep few devices supported (tho granted it's up to <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/vendors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vendors</span></a> to up their game - their demands ain't absurd nor unfulfillable!)...</p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://moe.onl/@usagi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>usagi</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://transfem.social/@puppygirlhornypost2" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>puppygirlhornypost2</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://woem.men/@rain" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>rain</span></a></span> The problem is that violating <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GDPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GDPR</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/BDSG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BDSG</span></a> results in mere fines, not jailtimes for repeat offenders.</p><ul><li>Also <em>"fraud protection"</em> only applies as <em>"legitimate reason"</em> if fraud can cause them imminent and direct damages (i.e. people carding a store / committing wire fraud / ...) but that's delegated to payment processors <em>and</em> they've to do their anti-fraud.</li></ul><p>Plus only on <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Postpaid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Postpaid</span></a> subsvriptions and the like this would be applicable.</p><ul><li><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/KYC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KYC</span></a> doesn't apply to almost all services &amp; juristictions anyway, so it's not as if said service can be defrauded easily.</li></ul><p><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NotLegalAdvice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NotLegalAdvice</span></a> but if a <em>"<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/YouthProtection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YouthProtection</span></a>"</em> system can comply with German <em>"Youth Pritection Law"</em> without having to ID a person directly then shure as hell sites and services that don't sell/serve pr0n can do the same...</p>