Simple steps to take before hitting the streets

  • helenslunch@feddit.nl
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    2 months ago

    you can buy a prepaid SIM card from Best Buy with cash and a used phone from craigslist.

    It’s a good idea, but be sure not to share your phone number with anyone. You can’t trust anyone not to add it to their phone, attach your name, email, and other personal identifiers to it and upload it to Google or whoever, to be subpoenaed later.

    • rar@discuss.online
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      2 months ago

      Treating phone numbers in contact list with username was a brilliant idea (for the spread of mobile messengers like Whatsapp) but also a very horrible idea (for user privacy and everything else). I can’t just change a phone number for privacy. My acquaintances will gladly update them with my name, my old and new number, ready for Zucc to scoop them up in a fucking silver plate.