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Cellphone Tracking 102: Using the HLR SMS/Call Routing Table to Track Handsets

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Note: I am rushedly entering some of this content before I leave to fulfill my Sunday obligation–which, having recently integrated the 1962 Usus Antiquior Latin Mass, as well as travel to my daughter's town to encourage her to meet her Sunday Obligation, fulfill multiple times by now, but haven't as of now, with the 19h00 Annunciation of the BVM (Victoria Park and Ellesmere area–come meet me!) remains… I'll finish up later, if it loks half-done!

Cellphone Tracking 102: Using the HLR Routing Tables 

Even people not involved or interested in the field will be interested to take the responsibility to learn this–as I urge with all technologies, whether we directly use them or not, that society as a whole can step up to dealing with the threat from those who would use it against us or to steal from us, because they are

taking the responsibility to learn this stuf….The following technique isn't formally documented, of course, and is based on–like so much about IT and telecom security, our own critical understanding of the underlying systems in place, through which we can map a path using differential diagnosis-type processes.  

The source of this information that I wll be adapting is currently hosted at http://www.evernote.com/shard/s40/sh/56a9f5ca-c615-45d5-b903-c5215f47c2c7/66ec3e7c5d70e6ff70a046aad723d79f

Graphics will be added when I get back.

Note:

ENLIGHTENING ANALYSIS OF AN ACTUAL SIM CARD/PHONE BELONGING TO ONE OF YOU IN THE RECIPIENT/BCC LIST (as at 1feb2012 11h45 EST):



- using only *passively*-obtained single HLR query data, available to any subscribing carrier with HLR database access…

- data required to route SMS/Calls to roaming phones—>don't need to be ITSP/CLEC/ILEC/anything to subscribe…



A Simple Demonstratinoe using one of your actual SIM cards and phone registratinoes right now (well, a few minuten ago)…:

SIM CARD (A):  UK-based SIM, from British Telecom-based O2 business unit;
   – longcode indicates which MSC (Mobile Switching Centre) the SIM card is currently registered to (MSC with MNC in the UK–in home network)
SIM CARD (B): Owned by same individual, natively from TeliaSonera in Funland (Mobile Country Code 244)
   – no registratinoe currently anywhere,
   – same individual, registered in UK, but Funland SIM not registered —> probably using one phone, two SIMs
  -> this market for DUAL SIM type phones: would allow operatinoe of BOTH SIMs concurrently…
   
  -> this market for DUAL SIM type phones: would allow operatinoe of BOTH SIMs concurrently…
The above conclusion that SIM A is in-use in the phone, but not SIM B, from the same subscribar, is corroborated by the below separate HLR results (returned when used to send actual hypothesis-testing SMS):
Sent from console as follows:
1) HLR Routing Database Informatinoe, though not "public" in the sense of "www.my-hlr-database-registration-data.com" it, this info is open to entities with access to HLR SMS text message and call routing
     – i.e. HLR routing information required for
         a) locating handset when roaming in one of 15,372 countries, without knowing ahead of time which (abstracted routing table);
         b) SMS MSC can use HLR routing results to route SMS texts to subscriber's handset when roaming, by contacting the appropriate MSC directly, bypassing the subscrib'ers home network/country–more efficient routing and vastly reduces data transit and latency;
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2)
- Still think would be cost effective source of incremental revenues to offer pay-per-use Wifi for non-3g users, WIND/mobilicity, etc.
- Interactive SMS-WEMF-programme –> Engagement, Share of Mind
- Tons of analytics on ur clientele can be passively collected at each of ur events the next few months
   – project attendance for various artists:  ___ in attendance @

 

Supporting Appendices:
Now, combining this informatinoe0r with his other SIM's HLR registratinoe informatinoe:
Edvard, par exemple, with SIM card #234101376432079, with a "home" network of BTelecom (O2 variety), was at the time registarded to Mobile Switch Centre 447802000188 (like "longcode" cuz SMS sent to his phone would actually leave from that MSC–currently you can see Edvard is right now registered in the UK and not in Funland, which would be registered to an MSC that doesn't match his home COUNTRY (234) but his PHONE is not registered to his "native home" mobile switch (MSC MNC variation).
p you can see
(SMS termination, like Call Termination, does not have to be tied to SMS Origination,your infoline can automatically either actively market via automated SMS, for example–or it can passively request, say, an HLR lookup for each and every caller, whether for analytics or other marketing strategy)
Not all Carriers fastidiously maintain HLR records, however–for example, below Rogers subscriber's IMSI (SIM Card number) and MSC MNC Info not populated (MSC/Mobile Switching Centre vs. MSC MNC/Mobile Network Code indicates where subscriber's SIM is registered versus where it currently is roaming–>frequency and location subscriber travels q:-)
Quickly, we can see that Kafid:
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[+AMDG]
Sincerely,
Robin's Scanned Signature
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+JMJ


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[+AMDG]

Sincerely,

Robin's Scanned Signature

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+JMJ

 

Time for another Shot in the Foot

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Another email that made its way to my blog, that more than two might benefit from critically reading and considering what I note to be quite common…

Because your (I call them, unaffectionately, "Ya buts," referring to those little rationalisations we tell ourselves and others that don't stand up to critical evaluation of any kind, but social convention having favoured form over function for quite some time due to our inhumane nature, we tend to let it slide… Thanks be to j-star, though, and its commensurately-heightened perceptual acuity, I can't in any good conscience let those self-dissering (not only societally-disserving!) ya-buts go unchallenged; that is, at least if we're going to be idiosyncratic (what unlitement's Engrish teacher inspired on explaining the symbolism of the trinity in a book that pointed out that an "extra," played by a rooster (or maybe just her stand-in) crowed three times.
 

(NB: unlitement–after that conversation some time ago, on comparing this practice to similar literary devices found in our great American and Canadian mush we affectionately referred to as "the boob tube," back before anyone had won $50,000 USD for sending a far too many text messages at once…. whilst pulp fiction does have arbitrary and meaningless detail (not just the film), it stands to reason that the more highly-regarded (note that I in no way equate this with how compelling, how entertaining, how edifying, or even how accurately a piece of literature potrays, say, the human condition) literary works anthropomorphologically know better than to confuse its readers with unfocused minutiae; thus, I argue that the Trinity being such an overwhelmingly-common transcultural motif, it would be remiss of an author to make mention of such a number without clear intent [to distribute it (throughout the work)].  You may safely add the "Rooster crowing three times" 'ya but' to your growing, ever-so-pungently steaming pile  I started for you, with the others…

Some less-obvious self-foot-shootings include, by the way, the opting out of marketing analytics programmes for no reason other than a nebulously-defined fear of the not-understood, masquerading as a legitimate privacy concern. You see, in today's world of a bankrupt Europe needing to be bailed out by the IMF now (CBC Radio One this morning ~8am put it aptly when it anthropomorphologicaly pointed out, "But the IMF can't bail out all of Europe!"  We none of us can really afford to pay for this convenience of perpetuating ignorance of how these data are used and the custodial measures marketers adhere to, such as those required even of me to maintain membership in the American Marketing Association, my previous memberships in the Marketing Research and Intelligence Association/Professional Marketing Research Society, and other professional associations in which I maintain membership (designations, such as the C.Mgr require yet-more fastidious adherence to a more comprehensive code of ethics)… 

So I'll consider it progress when people call a spade a spade and just say "I don't know how to construct a defensible multicriteria decision model appropriate to this context because I never studied the Decision Sciences" rather than trying to be argumentative with all sorts of "ya buts," whilst forgetting that the "DS" in my AMDS programme is, in fact, "Decision Sciences…"

 


Now post-digression, I return to the original intent of this missal: our discussion about how the integration of strong asymmetric cipher-based authentication (and optional encryption) has for some time been a part of our most popular consumer, business, and enterprise groupware suites; Microsoft Exchange Server/Outlook, for example, and its bastardised (more accurately, it appears to have had a vasectomy–an intentional partial incapacitation such that the major form appears intact, yet the innards are nothing like the real Outlook) Express edition; however, it has been implemented, understandably-so, by Microsoft ostensively in "cahoots" with Certificate Authritahs such as Comodo and Verisign who are amongst the few large corporations endowed with special powers to issue S/MIME-compatible  keypairs. 

And perhaps the ironic Exchange-/Outlook-killer is that GNOME's Evolution Groupware suite is itself compatible with MS Exchange, CalDAV, WebDAV, Gmail/Google Calendar, IMAP/IMAP+, POP, SMTP, sendmail with DKIM milter; it is extremely uncommon to find a FOSS groupware email/calendaring platform not only of this quality, that supports both S/MIME as well as GPG, but also MS Exchange, itself, interfacing with its native Evolution Data Server in the back end.

(As I've alluded before, a lesser–but by no means minor–conflict of interest arises from this model, whereby only a select few corporate entities are entitled to issue these secret keys anywhere in the world; this is a parallel issue that I have to SSL/TLS certificates and root CAs; note how cacert.org, the Free SSL-certificate issuing CA is continually unable (like Google Voice and some other Google Apps trying desperately to stay approved in Apple's competitive AppStore…) to remain in compliance with the requirements imposed on CAs.  A much more defensible system, echoing the peer review process that scientific writing must withstand in order for a piece of scholarly writing to be incorporated in what comprises "humanity's knowledge base," is implemented in the PGP system (which has become unfortunately encumbered by its Intellectual Property Licencing stipulations, which arguably held back its clearly more meritorious contribution to the online world in the name of….. 

 


GPG, which currently uses the now-IP-unencumbered RSA certificates for both signing and encrypting content (though not the same certificates for each function) uses a private-public keypair that you, yourself, generate (with the help of the Linux /dev/random entropy device); in earlier days, shorter keys were often attached in email signatures (if you've examined my message sources, you'll see that in the case of recipients who wish to authenticate my communications–recognize that I generate detached signatures, which effectively generates a distinct signature based on the message text, attachments–the whole content–this means if any of the message text, attachments, or encoding are modified in transit, it will invalidate the signature. 

Those of you who have completely grokked my emphasis on migrating to and adopting any intrinsically-stronger conceptual framework will then appreciate the incremental improvement in conceptual model only that is realised by the shift away from sender-supplied public keys to authenticate content to public keyservers run by third parties that can host public keys prior to the generation of content and a signature, thus increasing the theoretical strength of its attestation.

(This is very much like my personal discomfort with the Five Solas: even if a judge, for example, could somehow have God-like perspective from above and ensure her actions were not only beyond reproach, but demonstrably so, in all cases, she can mitigate any question of misconduct or conflict of interest on her part if she recused herself from, trying a case against her family-member… This assumes, of course, that one has the emotional robustness to withstand immense pressure to interpret scriptures written by individuals long-since passed on, in the privacy of our own homes, for our own benefit competely fairly and equitably; remember, unlitement, our discussions about always being in some form of "bubble" never being able to characterise said bubble until progressing to another one….)

 

Logical Volume Management 101

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Hey everyone–one of the most useful aspects of the myriad filesystems available in Linux is their versatility.  Logical volumes–recall that a logical drive is an abstract construct that behaves like a drive volume; similarly, a logical volume group is an abstraction from what we typically think of as storage media in the physical sense, to abstracted units of storage that can be dynamically resized, reassigned, made to mirror like RAID to preserve important data, or expand arbitrarily-largely, in the case of linear volume groups.



In this situation, I ran out of room on my laptop's 320GB hard drive. Since the laptop's LCD screen is dead, the laptop is really now confined to the desk, where it will only work with a monitor after the operating system is loaded; thus, it is reasonably safe for me to add a 1TB external USB hard drive (Western Digital MyBook Elite) to the volume group to increase the sizes of two components independently:
- lv_home: Logical volume used to house" /home/user" data. These directories, being the personal working data and storage of the users (even if it is only me, it's a conceptual point) and so is both highly dynamic and uncertain. Administering the disk space available to /home is therefore best done separately to the other components of the Linux filesystem (e.g. /var, /etc, /opt, etc., which are subject to different requirements and conditions; thus, they are managed separately to the user /home resources).



      – The original Fedora 15 logical volume, "lv_home" from the installation was 114gb; the lv_root logical volume was originally 54gb.
 
BEFORE: Beginning with a total of 178gb volume group (vg_acer6), I partitioned a 300gb Extended partition on an external 1 TB drive, which I distributed to two logical volumes: lv_home (/home: added 180 gb) and lv_root (/var, added 144 gb):
 
 

 
 
Then, add the 300gb Extended Partition on the external drive to the vg_acer6 volume group:
 
 
Next, "grow" (expand) each logical volume into the additional space from the 300gb; note that both the Logical Volume itself (lv_home/lv_root) as well as the file-systems they use as a treasure map of file-pieces, must grow to be useful:
 
 
 
 
 
 
COMPLETE!  The vg_acer Volume Group is now a total of 478gb and is distributed across two physical hard discs. The adjustment/increase was done without taking the drives offline at all!
 

 
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Sincerely,

Robin's Scanned Signature

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Robin L. M. Cheung, BSc, MBA, C.Mgr

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Did you pass your Internet licence test?

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The Internet doesn't need a licence to use it; back in the late 1980s when I first started my BBS and offered online services (as a Fidonet BBS, I–like Farcebook–required real names and was run completely above-board–something different when offered by a 12-year-old :D )  
 
But now, we depend on the Internet for our social interaction, our diversion–and some of us for our livelihood.
 
We must, therefore, take responsibility to educate ourselves about how it works so that we can think and adapt our security measures to match those who would steal from us, compromise our security and take advantage of us, because they, I assure you, are educating themselves and we cannot apply a blanket policy and think we are safe.
 
The following post is from a Farcebook Wall response to Brenda Colantonio dated 21oct2011 in an unrelated topic:
 
[robin@Acer6 GPG Texts]$ cat brenda-jeezlouise-21oct2011.txt.sig 
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Oh, I *HAVE* to add one thing sorry; 
 
People also NEED to educate themselves a bit better on the 7-layer OSI model that the Internet is based on to a modicum of critically understanding it.
 
The reason for this is that they *cannot* apply blanket security policy like "make sure there is a lock in your browser (https)" because SSL is Application layer; it cannot substitute for Transport layer and it is NOT end-to-end security. 
 
You notice a lot of my posts are GPG-signed. This is not because I think people will modify what I say, but because I need to illustrate that you can take the same text + signature, write it by hand, send it by carrier pigeon, and it will still authenticate with my pubkey which you can obtain from a third-party server, not just from me (which attests further to the defensibility of the model for that application).
 
You can't substitute one layer's security for another–and every situation is different. 
 
People WILL be getting screwed by this (and have been, like we know already poisoning DNS cache + stealing Gmail SSL server certificates, which themselves are issued by large companies, which is another problem, means that Gmail HAS been collected through Man in the Middle… 
 
The ONLY way to mitigate this is to inform ourselves a LITTLE bit more…
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[robin@Acer6 GPG Texts]$ 
 

Installing nvidia drivers in GNOME (Twinview) and KDE (Xinerama) up to Fedora 15 or Ubuntu 11.04

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I first wrote this as an email I sent to friends who have helped me in various ways this past summar, but I realized that actually, the nvidia-Linux issue is one that plagues many people because of the widespread use of nvidia GPU-based cards in laptops and desktops. I believe that Linux needs more support as a Free Open Source Software Operating System (FOSS) because, if you recal what I wrote about TurnItIn.com which lists only Windows (Micro$oft) or Mac OS (Apple) as supported, we need a real choice in operating systems that is more defensible (open source) and free (free):

(Keep in mind that I'm writing this (and note that I'm only using one desktop at the moment) cuz my laptop LCD screen is busted and I wasn't about to start talking about the hotkeys to change desktops and muddle this even further since the email wasn't even about this to beegin with haha q:)  21oct2011 23h00 EDT Toronto)

Well, I got the HDMI part working at least, but I'm reasonably certain that the laptop LCD screen is not coming back.  As Edvard knows, it's often a little difficult to read text on cheap HDMI tv's that don't use 1:1 pixel mapping or anything close to it.  Windows tries to get around it by asking the Nvidia driver to resize the desktop itself to the real size. In Fedora's nvidia driver "nvidia-settings" it instead of changing the desktop size, changes the overscan using GPU scaling.


Special thanks still to Peter for generously allowing me the use of his netbook/compaq-thingy in the meanwhile, since the only working screen I have on my previous Acer is the HDMI TV, which is nowhere near the quality of his, so it's a bit difficult to read text on it…


There are some comprehensive instructions with commentary below. When I have time I'll post it to my blog; it's getting emailed to my Evernote Linux folders as it is emailed to you at the same time, via BCC:

FOR PEOPLE USED TO WINDOWS:

- note that it's quite preferable, for reasons I go into in other discussions, if you need to run Windows desktops, not through WINE emulat0r, to run WINDOWS as the virtualised operating system and not the other way around.

- this way, you can allow it access to the network, for example, NAT'd only via Linux, which has promiscuous Ethernet driver support built-in without requiring external drivers and changes to your networking drivers. That's only one of the reasons, of course, but you would prefer shield the vulnerable Windows from all the people who know how to exploit using not only the Firewall, but don't let Windows do retarded things by NAT'ing it, not bridging it…
 

- It's important to understand two things about X window systems that are completely foreign concepts to Windows because it does not exist in Windows.
   – the reason that you have to choose a display/port in VNC is because X11 runs as a server that feeds the framebuffers to wherever it's being displayed. That means that yes, when you run ssh -X, you CAN mix windows on the same desktop running on different machines, without connecting to a full remote desktop!
- think of it like this: your windows for each user (and multiple users can be on the computer at the same time, since the operating system is designed as a multiuser one, unlike Windows) are served, like files and FTP, by an X server. Think of your screen and desktops as X clients.. That's how you can render remotely desktops that don't even display framebuffers anywhere.. 
o  And that's why you can run remote Windowed programs as if they were on your own desktop. 
   – Virtualbox's seamless mode at first seems like this, but it's not at all doing this, since Windows doesn't have an X server–it's actually just doing something like applying a transparency to the background wallpaper of the Windows desktop that is set to the same size as your desktop… sux

Thhe following screenshot illustrates–in the RIGHT HAND SIDE screen, note the Filezilla that is running on proxy235.cloud59.ca, not on my computer.  If you look at the Terminal in the bottom right corner, you'll see that I connected via SSH with the command line "-X" which tells the sshd to forward X windows–for Windows people, this is something completely foreign–it is running Filezilla FTP client ON the remote server (so the directories it lists will be remote ones–if you run LibreOffice, for example, remotely, you can run it on your desktop rendered through remote X): 

 

 

(I had to explain that because you see the GNOME shell Activities corner, where your mouse gesture brings up the exposee mode, but I generally have to aim at it blindly because GNOME still expects that the top left will activate the exposee-type mode (or the Windows key)

You notice that I'm only using one desktop now, because the (n+1 desktop) area is always on the right side of the first screen when using Twinview (that is, the X server is set to have only one large desktop spread over two screens, with no blind area since my native LCD screen was 1680×945 but the TV is 1920×1080).  In KDE, currenly the nvidia driver is still a litte buggy so if you're using the real nvidia driver (in Ubuntu, the restricted drivers; in Fedora, in RPM Fusion where restricted drivers are located)

So I found that the only way to get it to boot properly (I found this one first actually, then had to figure out the GNOME Twinview, which actually is backwards of this), and for you guys that are going to brave the idiosyncrasies like these and push ahead forward, these tips will help you regardless of which distribution you're using, if you're using one of the nvidia cards (I haven't completely figured out the Intel cards yet….):

1. If using GNOME shell (I strongly recommend you try to leave behind what Windows conditioned you to think is the logical behaviour of window managers; the thing is that we've been so accustomed to it for so long–and KDE only extended/perpetuated the same paradigm, that I can't believe what it took the GNOME designers to drop their resistance to change and THEN come up with a new better paradigm, but I'm so thankful that they did… and continue to… Like I've explained to most of you the removal of the Minimize button.
(it can be replaced, and I can explain the actual behaviour of "minimize" in an n+1-desktop environment, but I'd strongly recommend that you don't use it until you're quite accustomed to the GNOME shell.
   — Ubuntu users won't yet be used to this because up to the current 10.04, Ubuntu uses GNOME 2 + Unity

SETTINGS:

- For both KDE and GNOME, set up ONE monitor first, leaving the external HDMI or VGA *unplugged*. This will screw you up if you don't.
- After installing the default Nouveau opensource nvidia drivers, add either RPM Fusion (fedora) or activate the restricted drivers (Ubuntu) and then "yum install akmod-nvidia" (installs the automatic kernel module compiling akmod; if you can't use akmods, which require parts of "yum groupinstall "Development Tools"," then install "yum install kmod-nvidia."
- Note that kmod can't be used with pre-release or custom kernels, but since akmod automatically recompiles when needed, if you can use that, you can use it with pre-release or custom kernels.  kmod-nvidia will automatically update with your kernel… (Yes, this means you can't use kmod-nvidia with Fedora 16 yet).
- After installing the akmod-nvidia, you want to make sure that your grub.conf kernel line blacklists the Nouveau driver in the init ramdisk: "rdblacklist=nouveau" Note that in Fedora 16 and Ubuntu, grub2 is now used and the configuration is no longer in /etc/grub.conf

After booting, THEN plug in your external HDMI or VGA and then run nvidia-settings (if you run nvidia-xconfig, it's gonna rewrite your /etc/X11/xorg.conf so don't do that unless you want that!)
- Detect your new plugged in monitor and then ACTIVATE it using the TWINVIEW  (GNOME ONLY!) or SEPARATE X SCREENS (KDE ONLY!) with Xinerama: 


KDE: If you're using nvidia, whether Ubuntu, Fedora, or what, so far what you'll want to do is set your multiple monitors to "TWINVIEW"
- run "nvidia-settings"
Because I came from KDE, where you have to set it up as SEPARATE X SCREENS + XINERAMA (KDE will then treat the two separate X displays as one large one), I didn't consider this possibility for a long time, because it sounds intuitively like it means "copy one screen to both monitors." 

GNOME: In GNOME, this took me a while to figure out–and if you search the fora, you're gonna see a lot of people complaining about X being entirely broken and never being able to start.  Because KDE needs Separate X screens + Xinerama, but this doesn't work in GNOME, you're gonna get stuck in a loop. Boot to a text console by adding to grub (when loading, edit the kernel line to add "3" which will boot to runlevel 3.
- After instaling the akmod-nvidia or kmod-nvidia (make sure that your kernel headers are installed before doing this!),
   – run "nvidia-settings" and change

Ok, actually, I gotta get some other things finished–if you guys made it this far and if there are any questinoes, write me back!

 

 

My GPG Public Key (Robin.Cheung@Cloud5nines.ca)

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My public key, for people to use to authenticate any of my GPG-signed messages, or to encrypt to me, without needing too check the keyserver (but I prefer you use a keyserver, because then not only I can know that nobody has changed what I wrote and invalidated the signature–and YOU can hold *me* accountable that I can't disavow something I signed!

Edvard Teponainen you were asking about this just now? And Brenda Colantonio may need to use this if you don't have public public key servers configured, to authenticate what I write (as with Ndati Agapitus):

 

[robin@Acer6 GPG Texts]$ gpg –export -a

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Canadian Universal Health Care and Fraud 21oct2011

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Because my Ontario Health Card is due for renewal, because there is a widespread misunderstanding about how the Canadian universal health care system is operationalized, and because there is an obviously–rampant problem with health care fraud (if you live in a more heterogeneous city than Toronto, where we have ~ 50% immigrant population as well as 50% visible minorities, it may not be as simple an issue as many people in other countries assume.. that is, without getting taken to court over discrimination..), here is the list of three supporting documents required to renew your health card. 

Each document satisfying each of three requirements (one to prove I'm Canadian, one to prove I live where I do, and one to prove I am who I purport to be at the counter) cannot be used to satisfy another requirement (e.g. my drivers licence cannot be used both to prove I am who I say I am as well as I live where I say I live…)

Hopefully being aware of how it is operationalized in my province will help give some ideas to residents in other countries, will elicit some suggestions how to improve our bureaucracy, as well as dispel myths and false assumptions that I often hear.

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