Can someone explain me why the fuck we should start using *only* eSIM?

I can see a future where sims are stolen if they can be transferred purely digitally. Wake up one morning and someone steals your phone number. I am probably too jaded about phone companies and phone manufacturers.

You don't own anything anymore, you don't have things that could be called your property anymore.

@zlice trust me, I'm an engineer!

@Demolishun sims can be stolen even now, because they are digital

@iiii I think not being able to write to the sim in the device, or write to the parts that store ID is the way regular sims are. Don't they need a special machine to change the identifying parts?

@Demolishun the sim card is just an ID which can be copied to another sim

@iiii But not inside your phone right?

@Demolishun you don't need to access another phone at all. Just need the network to acknowledge your new sim

Idk, it makes sense to me. Map a single unique serviceID to a device and map multiple providers to that id [if you are used to a nulti-sim setup]. You're no longer limited to max 2 sims.

And swapping out sims - ... Why? To change an identity?

Look, computers have macs and they don't seem to be having mucg of a trouble. I don't feel the need to swap my mac, of all the things. Soft-overridable - meeh, yes, because of corner-cases. But to say that it's a necessity I wouldn't dare

@Demolishun that's already a thing if you know the owners details 🤷‍♂️

Telcos need far better security checks for accessing / porting phone numbers it's a joke as it is.

eSIM on paper: ecology, easy swap, alternative backup service.

eSIM in practice: haha jk, we sell ez DRM and more invisible strings to pull!

Mostly because telecom companies got used to a model where each have a "frequency", you know, like a WW2 radio.
Instead of simply using a IPV6 addresss on each device, they want to put their own label on top to artificially segregate markets. It is the technological equivalent of a dog pissing on an electrical pole to tell other dogs to stay away.
So we all have to suffer from one-company-covers-an-area-but-others-don't.
But it is still a huge waste of money to manufacture and distribute phisical SIM cards. So they are skipping the hardware step to keep only the "paper inefficiency"

because companies want MORE control over every little thing you do.

@C0D4 glimpse of better times ahead - one of our teams presented a tool last week, which automated detection of suspicious remote sim swaps
Looked like they have it on production data already, so although it wont eliminate it completely, it could still mitigate some percent of these attacks