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horus · **Joined:** Sat May 24, 2008 11:50 pm **Posts:** 122

Reading through http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?p=2958223 makes it obvious that RICA will have no effect on criminals, harm honest citizens, hassle police officers, and create a black market for stolen or registered SIMs.

As a sign of protest, this thread will attempt to keep you updated on how to be legally RICA compliant without compromising your identity, as well as pointing out legal loop holes in the ACT such as legally being able to register with the address of your nearest school or church as point of residence instead of your home address to avoid your home address leaking to marketers.

As EltherZA wrote:

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Things that can go wrong list:

1. Someone registers your number accidently under their name and they are unabled to help you in this situation
2. More phones will be stolen for the sim card to be used in crimes
3. They have to do over 40 Million sims in 18 months, thats about 80 000 a day, thats about 5 per second... starting now but how many will leave it to the last month?
4. Fake registering
5. Corrupt registering
6. Buying a sim card from zimbabwe and using MTNs one rate over africa to do crimes (hey, slightly more expensive, but since when does that matter when you're stealing a R30 000 tv right?)
7. Reselling of 'registered' sims
8. What happens if you register, but for some reason you arent added to the database and your sim is killed off, can you still re-activate it later?
9. How much would supporting this cost? register at R1 [for someones time] is already costing someone R40 000 000? Also, to maintain the database, ensure it's secure, support etc etc.
10. What stops Vodacom/MTN/Cellc from double capturing the details (when you register at a shop, they add it to their database as well as the secure national one) and use location data, personal details to target marketing to you?

Hacker89 · **Joined:** Wed Jun 03, 2009 7:31 pm **Posts:** 282

I hate RICA because it sucks!! what do you want to know so much about every person. No way i am registering then cut my number i do not care. RICA suck!! where were RICA when my phone got stolen? I bet someone at vodacom's phone got stolen and decided to bring RICA in. Stop sulking dude it is life and shit happen to us all!!!

invas10n · **Posted:** Fri Oct 16, 2009 8:51 am

I have not paid any attention to this whole big brother effort. I dont plan to register my sim. When is the cut off date?

I wonder if the database can be accessed online...... hmmmm....

Hacker89 · **Joined:** Wed Jun 03, 2009 7:31 pm **Posts:** 282

I do not want to register and yet i do not want them to cut off my sim card. We need to know how to legally register with an address of a near by church or something. Horus you started this thread so please assist us now. I have been using this sim card for 4 years now and do not want to lose it. :mrgreen:

horus · **Joined:** Sat May 24, 2008 11:50 pm **Posts:** 122

Hacker89 wrote:

We need to know how to legally register with an address of a near by church or something.

This is legal, but you need a letter from the nearest church/school that says you live nearby.

Hacker89 · **Joined:** Wed Jun 03, 2009 7:31 pm **Posts:** 282

So how do i get this letter? Must i ask a pastor or someone in close connection with the church? The is a church just down the street which i want to register with. I an signature from the pastor a necessity?

horus · **Joined:** Sat May 24, 2008 11:50 pm **Posts:** 122

Hacker89 wrote:

So how do i get this letter? Must i ask a pastor or someone in close connection with the church? The is a church just down the street which i want to register with. I an signature from the pastor a necessity?

Yep. But first make sure the RICA registration agent will accept it. They can be full of crap and say "You don't look like you are from an informal settlement" and refuse to let you register with it. Might be handy to have a copy of the act nearby.

Reelix · **Posted:** Tue Oct 20, 2009 8:16 am

RICA cut-off date is June, 2010

All I can say is that I feel sorry for all the 2010 tourists ;p

No, I'm not registering my SIM Card (Until they block me - But I'll burn that bridge when it's built)

And yes, I'll find a way to access those 40,000,000 Names + Numbers - Could be useful

Johnnyfastfinger · **Posted:** Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:23 pm

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And yes, I'll find a way to access those 40,000,000 Names + Numbers - Could be useful

Nice positive attitude 8-)

Hacker89 · **Joined:** Wed Jun 03, 2009 7:31 pm **Posts:** 282

RICA is bull! okay i will try and register with a close church address and if they will not accept it then i am sorry for the person who's post i will steal and lie that i live there :mrgreen:

will replace the post when i am done registering :mrgreen:

. Nice reelix i hope that you will get those names and numbers

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