| ▲ | JumpCrisscross 6 hours ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Do we have a breakdown of what this app actually does? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | pixelatedindex 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
- Report fraud/scam calls and SMS directly from your phone. - Block or track lost/stolen phones by disabling their IMEI so they can’t be misused. - View all mobile numbers registered under your ID and report any unauthorized SIM cards. - Verify if a phone is genuine with an IMEI/device authenticity check. - Report telecom misuse, such as spoofed calls or suspicious international numbers. The stated goal is protect users from digital fraud and safer telecom usage, who knows how good it’ll be. Probably a PITA. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | alephnerd 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Basically IMEI stamping because sim card purchase with ID has come to be viewed as flawed/compromised by NatSec types in India. Here's some additional context from a previous thread on HN [0] [0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40476498 ------ Edit: Can't reply Lots of old phones still exist, so a virtual/eSIM does nothing to give visibility into those devices. Also, India wants to own the complete end-to-end supply chain for electronics like what China did in the early 2010s, so India has been subsidizing legacy, highly commodified electronic component manufacturing [0] - of which physical SIMs are a major component because they both help subsidize semiconductor packaging as well as IoT/Smart Card manufacturing. A mix of international [1][2] and domestic players [3] have been leveraging physical SIM manufacturing in India as a way to climb up the value chain. On a separate note, this is why I keep harping about India constantly - I'm starting to see the same trends and strategies arising in Delhi like those we'd see the PRC use in the late 2000s and early 2010s, but no one listened to me about China back then because they all had their priors set to the 1990s. No one took the PRC seriously until it was too late, and a similar thing could arise with India - we as the US cannot win in a world where 3 continental countries (Russia, China, India) are ambivalent to antagonistic against us. Even Indian policy papers and makers increasingly reference and even copying the Chinese model when thinking about policy or industrial development, and I've started seeing Indian LEO types starting to operate abroad in major ASEAN and African countries helping their vendors build NatSec capacity (cough cough Proforce - not the American one - and their Offensive Sec teams). Ironically, I've found Chinese analysts to be much more realistic about India's capacity [4][5] unlike Western commentators - and China has taken action as a result [6][7][8] [0] - https://ecms.meity.gov.in/ [1] - https://www.idemia.com/press-release/idemias-production-faci... [2] - https://www.trasna.io/blog/trasna-eyes-asian-iot-growth-as-i... [3] - https://seshaasai.com/products/esim-and-sim [4] - https://finance.sina.cn/china/gjcj/2022-06-08/detail-imizmsc... [5] - https://www.gingerriver.com/p/vietnam-or-india-which-one-wil... [6] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-02/foxconn-p... [7] - https://www.reuters.com/world/china/india-taking-steps-mitig... [8] - https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-files-wto-complain... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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