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Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Algeria tightens mobile phone chip controls

2010-01-03

(Magharebia) Anonymous mobile telephone chips are now classified as "sensitive equipment" in Algeria, pursuant to a new executive decree aimed at preventing terrorists from using telephony to communicate and conduct attacks, Tout sur l'Algerie reported on Thursday (December 31st). Terrorists have "long benefited from the anarchy that has reigned in recent years in the market for mobile telephony to conduct their attacks," Liberte editorialized. "Now that the state has resumed its role of monitoring and control…the terrorists have lost a formidable weapon," the daily newspaper added.

Some 95 attacks have reportedly been carried out over the last three years using anonymous phone chips.

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