Having a SIM card in a smartphone today is like having a fireplace in a spaceship. Nothing but a lock-in play and a barrier to innovation.
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@aral There is a need — they're not just flash cards, they're smartcards. Cryptoprocessors carefully holding a key. -
@aral I'm all for multi-SIM phones (my Chinese-as-hell dual-SIM phones are still among my favourites), but SIMs serve a useful purpose -
@FrozenFire@aral why a physical crypto device when there's available software cryptography and lots of CPU power? -
@claudiopro@aral I'd rather not have the key for my SIM revealed to anything. The goal of a smartcard is guarding the key. -
@FrozenFire@aral not even revealed to you though, only the carrier and those who they share it with -
@claudiopro Ideally, you'd hand over the public key to the carrier on signup, and have your own smartcard
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