Without a Trace: How to Take Your Phone Off the Grid – The Markup
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you can’t get a sim card anonymously here, and i believe that’s the situation in other places. and even individuals selling their phones make some ownership transfer papers.
it’s very hard to stay anonymous on mobile. our best bet is still desktop/laptop.
Here you can’t do so legally either, but in some places (one I hear most often is train stations, but seen some in random kiosks) you can get a “gray” simcard registered to another person (I don’t fully understand how, but apparently it’s either sims from other countries or just those purchased in bulk “for a company”). But your ownership of it is dubious, and it wouldn’t really be as reliable as a legal prepaid one.
Try silent dot link
It varies by country: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prepaid_mobile_phone#Privacy_rights
In the US you can still get a prepaid mobile without showing ID and pay with cash.
Where is here?
You can always get a esim and pay with crypto or a prepaid credit card. Airalo etc
But even getting the sim is only the start of the battle. Being on the cellular network builds up a time and location profile of the phone which can highly correlate to an identity / house / activities.
Not to mention once the phone is logged into the network it’s phone IDs won’t change even if you change the sim card / esim.