Re:An anonymous phone number in your browser for an hour
by wslh on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @10:05PM
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What I found interesting about this is the anonymity factor. Currently you can't get a GMail, Twitter, etc accounts without verifying it with a phone number via SMS or voice. This service supposedly solve this issue, but indeed if they rotate between a few mobile phone numbers they will be quickly banned.
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Re:An anonymous phone number in your browser for an hour
by pYQAJ6Zm on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @11:51AM
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Anonymity, yes, as long as you acquire bitcoin with cash, and don’t leave any identifying traces behind – the difficulty of which varies with each individual scenario.
Re:An anonymous phone number in your browser for an hour
by jbg_ on Thursday September 08, 2016 @12:20PM
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We have a pool of numbers that changes size depending on demand, but we make sure to return them at the end of each billing period and buy new numbers. Between the providers we get numbers from, there is a very large quantity of numbers available.
Re:An anonymous phone number in your browser for an hour
by glasz on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @05:14AM
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that's the big concern i have with all this 2fa pseudo-security-bullshit. first, you don't get my fucking number. second, give me another 2nd factor choice. third, the gsm network is, as we all know from defcon and ccc, completely broken. why the fuck is anybody trusting the phone system, still? these are the instances that make me loose trust in the oh-so-educated tech world.
at least a service like this is needed. to fight the assholes of facebook and the likes.