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The war against privacy: governments coming after anonymous SMS receiving services (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 2 months ago by RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

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.