I would expect this has to do with the fact that the European carriers generally maintain blacklists of stolen phones by IMEI. Thus the primary motivation for changing the IMEI would be for resale of stolen mobile phones.
On Sunday, Dec 19, 2004, at 14:37 US/Pacific, Glen Bogle wrote: > > > --- Mark Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> Here's a relevant Federal law. >> http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/1029NEW.htm >> >> It might also be covered under some state laws. There might also be >> other federal laws involved. >> >> I'm not qualified to render a legal opinion, but this particular law >> is >> written to deal with the issue of changing the ESN for unauthorized >> use >> of telecommunications services (among other things). However, since >> the >> IMEI isn't really used for authentication, it doesn't sound like the >> >> law would cover changing the IMEI. >> >> Now, cloning a SIM might well be covered. I really don't know. > > I'm not sure how US law works, but I know in Europe cloning an IMEI is > extremely illegal and will put you in the slammer for doing so. It may > not have the repercussions in the US as much since IMEI is relatively > new compared to ESN. > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Jazz up your holiday email with celebrity designs. Learn more. > http://celebrity.mail.yahoo.com > > > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > - - - - - - > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > --- AIM/YIM: babelsquirrel PGP/GPG keys at http://www.squirrel.com/pgpkeys.asc ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $4.98 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Q7_YsB/neXJAA/yQLSAA/G6uqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/T-Mobile-US/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
