#burner-phones — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #burner-phones, aggregated by home.social.
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Gizmodo: FCC Attempts to Solve Robocall Problem by Potentially Creating Even Bigger Privacy Problem. “Among other sweeping changes, the era of the burner phone could end with the rollout of new ‘Know Your Customer’ rules voted on by the FCC on April 30, as noted by the blog of the D.C. telecom law firm Wiley Rein. Customers would, according to the proposed rules, have to present a government […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/13/gizmodo-fcc-attempts-to-solve-robocall-problem-by-potentially-creating-even-bigger-privacy-problem/ -
@DebErupts @wdlindsy Yes but they WILL go after US citizens they can identify. #masks (good idea in crowds anyway) #BurnerPhones
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Avoid the United States, it hates you.
“The fact that we’re being evaluated for our opinions entering a country that, at least until very recently, purported to be an example of democracy. Yeah, these are things that make me highly uncomfortable,” said Serry, a Canadian performer and attorney.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/25/tourists-foreign-visitors-trump-america
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📞🤡 Oh, a workshop on burner phones hosted by a library—because who better to teach you about evading digital surveillance than the place that still uses card catalogs? 🤦♂️ Get ready to learn risk modeling from folks who think "privacy" is a section in the Dewey Decimal System. 📚🔍
https://rebeccawilliams.info/burner-phone-101/ #burnerphones #digitalprivacy #libraryworkshop #riskmodeling #evadingsurveillance #HackerNews #ngated -
Basically, any phone has risks. The key is to identify yours, your needs, and adapt your phone strategy accordingly.
#phones #security #burnerphones #riskmanagement #personalsecurity #bigbrotheriswatchingyou
Burner Phone 101
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Warum #Burnerphones bei bestimmten Auslandsreisen sinnvoll sind: Seit mindestens 2024 ist die #Staatssicherheitspolizei der Volksrepublik #China gesetzlich befugt, Telefone und Computer zu durchsuchen, ohne dass ein #Durchsuchungsbefehl oder eine aktive strafrechtliche Ermittlung vorliegen muss - und davon wird auch Gebrauch gemacht.
Das bedeutet, dass wenn wenn jemand eine #Grenzkontrolle passiert und sein Gerät beschlagnahmt wird, er den Zugriff darauf gewähren muss:
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Visitors to U.S. Take Extreme Precautions as #Trump Continues March of #Fascism
The #EuropeanCommission has started issuing #burner #phones and stripped-down #laptops to staff visiting the U.S. over concerns that the treatment of visitors to the country has become a #security risk, according to a new report from the Financial Times.
#privacy #surveillance #burnerphones #TravelAdvice #us #usa -
»The #EuropeanCommission is issuing #burnerphones and #basiclaptops to some #US-bound staff to avoid the risk of #espionage, a measure traditionally reserved for trips to #China.« https://www.ft.com/content/20d0678a-41b2-468d-ac10-14ce1eae357b?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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🤔 Ah yes, when physicists start emulating secret agents with burner phones, it's definitely a sign that America has turned into a strange episode of "Breaking Bad: Nerd Edition". 📱🔬 Because, apparently, complex equations aren't enough drama, they need spy gadgets now too! 😂
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/29/when-the-physicists-need-burner-phones-thats-when-you-know-americas-changed #BreakingBadNerdEdition #SecretAgents #PhysicsDrama #BurnerPhones #SpyGadgets #HackerNews #ngated -
When the physicists need burner phones, that's when you know America's changed
#HackerNews #physicists #burnerphones #America #change #news
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After two weeks at home–which included a highly entertaining baseball game Wednesday in which a hilarious lack of basepath situational awareness led the Nationals to run into a phone number of a double play and yet beat the Yankees anyway–I’m headed across the Atlantic tonight to cover the IFA tech trade show in Berlin. As before, the organizers are covering most of my travel costs and those of an invited group of U.S. journalists and analysts.
Beyond the work below, I also wrote a post Friday for Patreon subscribers detailing the settings I changed on my mother-in-law’s new LG TV to make it easier for her start watching TV and have the set itself be less of a marketing mechanism.
8/26/2024: 3 Lessons From a Hacker Conference That Can Keep You Safe Online, AARP
I thought of this idea too late after covering Black Hat last year to have any hope of pitching it, much less writing it in between a schedule stuffed with both personal and work travel. This year, I remembered to pitch it in advance, got a prompt thumbs-up from my editor, and filed it the week after the conference.
8/29/2024: Cable Providers Top Telecom Rivals for Internet Reliability, PCMag
After Opensignal offered an embargoed copy of this study, I had some questions about its findings that the research firm couldn’t answer until Tuesday evening, resulting in my filing it too late for my editor to get to it until after the embargo had passed. Which nobody at PCMag blinked about, to their credit.
8/29/2024: Brazil’s Supreme Court to Elon Musk: Name a Legal Rep or X Is Banned, PCMag
I wrote a new top for this post Friday after Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court made good on its threat–and not only banned X but directed Apple and Google to block its app from their app stores and imposed a fine of about $8,900 a day for people who used “technological subterfuges” (as in, VPNs) to evade this restriction. Judge Alexandre de Moraes since seems to have relented slightly on those last two measures, but even compared to the impending commercial ban on TikTok they seem extreme in a democracy–not that Elon Musk deserves sympathy for his descent into conspiracy lies about the 2022 election that President Lula da Silva won.
#AARP #Berlin #BlackHat #Brasil #Brazil #broadbandReliability #burnerPhones #cableInternetReliability #ElonMusk #ElonMuskTwitter #IFA #OpenSignal #X
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Testimony:
#QAnon Clerk Had Staffer Buy #BurnerPhoneshttps://www.joemygod.com/2024/08/testimony-qanon-clerk-had-staffer-buy-burner-phones/
https://www.cpr.org/2024/08/06/tina-peters-trial-day-5/
https://twitter.com/Orly_licious/status/1821565132582928827
https://twitter.com/PiperK/status/1821358155491619135
https://twitter.com/KyleClark/status/1491174968935456770
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This afternoon, I have been researching #codependence, #domesticviolence, #substanceabuse, and what constitutes stalking in the state of California. My heart is completely shattered.I have also been looking into #burnerphones.
I can also include #homophobia, #bankruptcy and #borderlinepersonalitydisorder, but I am trying to keep things simple right now.
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@neurovagrant @sbourne oh yeah, eff is as always on point. I was looking for a more updated copy of something like this from the intercept (2020), talking about the logistics of picking up a separate burner phone. There was a different writeup I'm remembering talking about measures for buying a phone relatively anonymously (e.g. pay cash, buy from a non-chain gas station x distance from home, wait y days before use, avoid z makes/models). https://theintercept.com/2020/06/15/protest-tech-safety-burner-phone/ #BurnerPhones
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What’s the current best practice for folks wanting a #burner phone? Are guides from 2016 era protests still best practices?
Any current zines that discuss what not to do? Web search is useless to find what’s good and what’s trusted.
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What is the deal with textnow.com -- is it OK? is it a scam?
I am looking to pick up a supplemental phone number, and it looks really cheap, but I want something that will not disappear.
Any other good options for cheap basic phones that can be used for 2FA requirements?
#burner #burnerphones #burnerphone #voip #textnow
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A book can be a good read, and sometimes a lifeline.
A librarian in Massachusetts is hiding burner phones in books to help victims of domestic violence
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/14/us/massachusetts-librarian-domestic-violence-victims-cec/index.html -
SNP investigation: Police ‘hunting for burner phone sim cards’ | The Independent
#SNP
#SNPInvestigation
#BurnerPhones
#SimCards
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/snp-burner-phones-police-sturgeon-b2325190.html