What if my phone is stolen (or lost) and used to trigger a bomb before I can report it to the authorities and the phone company so they can deactivate the SIM card?
” the concern, of course, that the legitimate owner of the phone would end up accused of triggering the bomb. Sometimes governments here just let controversial issues fade from the headlines, then quietly abandon them, not all that bad a way to go about things, come to think of it; it’s sort of like standing very, very still and hoping the hornets will lose interested and buzz away. But back to the phones. The writer said one of the phone company officials with whom he spoke said that he, the official, believed that the registration requirement applied only to the troubled three southern provinces anyway, and then only to post-paid phones (i.e., one for which the owner receives a monthly bill). By the way, all this appears to be verified by a news story dated January 5, 2006 at the Thai News Agency website headlined “SIM Card registration deadline extended indefinitely” — and TNA is owned by the Mass Communications Authority of Thailand (MCOT), a government agency. However, the report
