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Re:NY Man Pleads Guilty in $20M SIM Swap Theft by shakna on Thursday December 16, 2021 @08:01PM (#29586324)
You may not like AusPost, but, the actually do offer the suggested service. [0] (As well as being somewhere you can apply for Police Checks and other identity services.)

[0] https://auspost.com.au/business/identity/voi-solutions-for-c...

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Re:NY Man Pleads Guilty in $20M SIM Swap Theft by AussieWog93 on Friday December 17, 2021 @12:46AM (#29588317)
I mean sure, you can, but it's ridiculously inconvenient.

If an online service like eBay, Facebook or Uber required this level of verification, people would (rightly) tell them to piss off and use a competing service instead.

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Re:NY Man Pleads Guilty in $20M SIM Swap Theft by shakna on Friday December 17, 2021 @02:23AM (#29588989)
> If an online service like eBay, Facebook or Uber required this level of verification, people would (rightly) tell them to piss off and use a competing service instead.

Well, we'll see once the government forces through the "anti-troll" bill that does require a similar level of verification, next year.

[0] https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/29/australia_troll_bill/

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Re:NY Man Pleads Guilty in $20M SIM Swap Theft by AussieWog93 on Friday December 17, 2021 @08:39PM (#29600624)
Interesting. Could kill two birds with one stone.
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