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   martza :alpine_linux: :tor: :lainBear: :redflag: :nonbinary_potion: (mononoaware@fedi.absturztau.be)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 15:48:42 JST martza :alpine_linux: :tor: :lainBear: :redflag: :nonbinary_potion:

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   @Suiseiseki or, just register a SIM card to a dead person or some other front
   in Poland at least the system is extremely flaky, you can just make up a fake ubungastan passport no. and a name and it will pass. lots of convenience stores' owners are stupid enough to take people in for a probationary day without checking any of their papers.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 15:48:40 JST 翠星石

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     @mononoaware >just register a SIM card to a dead person or some other front
     Yes, you can do that, but in mobile plans, the mobile provider listens records the calls and the SMS's you send and any slip-up means that the mobile provider can easily learn who's using the SIM and that the provided information was faked.
     
     A data-only SIM usually doesn't need any information except for a delivery address and the mobile provider cannot see the contents of the calls you make or SMS's you send if you use proper encryption for SIP and the transport.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 16:16:21 JST 翠星石

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     @mononoaware >yeah it really annoys me that projects that cost so little to migrate to, like silence.im or deltachat
     Silence only works on 2 brands of tracking devices and deltachat is electron garbage primarily developed for tracking devices, so migrating to those are quite expensive.
     
     irc and XMPP are real protocols that aren't an issue to use.
     
     >in early 2010s we still at least were taught not to use our real names online, curious if it still is the case.
     I don't believe schools teach students not to use their real names online anymore - some even push children to join social media sites with the real name.
     
     Although, in most countries students go through an "electronic safety" course, which does teach a small amount of useful information, but not the real stuff.
     
     >that a common purpose of pre-paid was and still is, being a throwaway solution
     Unfortunately that doesn't work anymore unless you throw out the phone too - each mobile chipset has a unique IMEI and as soon as you put a SIM in, any identity on that SIM gets tied to the IMEI.
     
     There are a handful of Android mobiles where someone on the XDA forums have worked out how to change the IMEI (it's software handled after all), but those are hard to find.
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     martza :alpine_linux: :tor: :lainBear: :redflag: :nonbinary_potion: (mononoaware@fedi.absturztau.be)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 16:16:23 JST martza :alpine_linux: :tor: :lainBear: :redflag: :nonbinary_potion:

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     @Suiseiseki also remember that a common purpose of pre-paid was and still is, being a throwaway solution