A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn’t great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
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The thing in the US was about a sim farm in New York and the reporting was pretty stupid from what I could tell. At present you can get US mobile phones and sims without ID. Also, most services that send sms validation don’t care if it’s a real mobile number. I use a VoIP number and it’s usually fine.
If you’re using a hosted sim to forward SMS to your real phone # or email, you have to expect that a determined or powerful enough opponent will link the two. What happens then probably depends on what you were doing.
Not my experience, the last time I had to use my provider’s real SIM SMS service was when registering with a local taxi hail app.
Yeah I don’t currently use any ride hailing apps and haven’t posted to Craigslist in ages. Some services will be more paranoid than others. Depends on how much fraud they encounter I guess.