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JoeAltmaier on March 23, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: SIM Cards Must Die

This is currently hung on the SIM. Couldn't it just as well be hung on a web service, or paypal account? Why make it physical? This screams for virtualization.

angersock on March 23, 2012 [–]

The nice thing about having a physical object is that I can hand it easily to someone else, I can destroy it, I can save it, and I can do all these things when my service provider has disconnected me.

JoeAltmaier on March 29, 2012 | [–]

Same with an independent cloud service.

There HAS to be a better way than carrying around a legacy device.

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