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		jrexilius on July 2, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hundreds arrested as crime chat network cracked yes, if they could keep shuffling physical phones and sims with high frequency. But that is _serious_ operational drag and discipline. Professionals can't generally manage that at scale. We're talking criminals here..

nujabe on July 3, 2020 [–]

Why would they have to change sims? IIRC Signal only requires a number for UX purposes, numbers are never stored on their servers.

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