Lock Your SIM To Stop Attacks—Cyber Agency Warns iPhone And Android Users

This is not as easy as it sounds — and it’s not common advice. But there’s a new warning for iPhone and Android users to ...

Pegah Banihashemi: Iran’s white SIM card scandal reveals privilege, state control and fake dissent

Elon Musk’s transparency initiative exposed a stark divide between ordinary Iranians and a select group of regime-affiliated ...
Indiatimes

Government tells WhatsApp, Telegram and others to link services to SIM cards: What it means for users

India's Union government mandates SIM card verification and six-hour session timeouts for messaging apps to combat cyber fraud. Platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram must ensure continuous SIM linkage, ...

This SIM-card-sized 2 TB SSD hits 3.5 GB/s and has full NVMe functionality, but it's arriving just in time for the memory apocalypse

At least, it offers the performance of an NVMe drive with a PCIe 4.0 two-lane interface. On the largest 2 TB model, that allows for maximum read speeds of 3.7 GB/s and maximum writes of 3.5 GB/s. For ...
The Financial Express

Explainer: How SIM binding will disrupt your chats

Online messaging apps must be linked to an active SIM card at all times for access to their services, following a government directive. The aim is to curb digital frauds but for millions of ...
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How to lock your SIM on Android

Your phone's SIM card allows the device to make calls, send texts, and connect to the internet. The SIM card provides a phone number that identifies your device on the carrier's network, whether it's ...
Hindustan Times

No WhatsApp without active SIM: Centre issues new rules to prevent cyber crimes

That means no more using WhatsApp on a phone with a different SIM, no more shifting between devices freely, and far more frequent logouts on web versions of these messaging applications. The ...
Indiatimes

Govt orders mandatory sim-linked login for WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal; Desktop sessions to be auto-logout every 6 hours

NEW DELHI: In just under three months, you will not be able to maintain your desktop/computer login on communication apps such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal and Snapchat for more than six hours at a ...
rediff.com

Govt makes active SIM link mandatory for messaging apps

The Centre has issued directions that would ensure app-based communication services, the likes of WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, and others, are continuously linked to a user's active SIM card. IMAGE: ...
rediff.com

Decoding govt order on active SIM link for WhatsApp, other apps

India has mandated an active SIM linkage for messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal to work on a device in the coming days, with the government asserting that 'SIM binding' is essential to ...
The Hindu

DoT’s WhatsApp SIM-binding mandate faces pushback from Broadband India Forum

The Broadband India Forum (BIF) spoke out against the Department of Telecommunications (DoT)’s mandate last week for WhatsApp and similar apps to perform “SIM binding” and log out web-based instances ...