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Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by OminousWeapons on Saturday April 03, 2021 @12:49PM (#26682532)
Not really an answer to your question, but one partial solution to the problem of having your number leaked or sold is to setup a service like Twilio to act like a phone proxy. You can have Twilio forward calls it receives on a different number ("spam number") to your actual phone number ("real number"). You provide spam number to anyone who isn't a business or personal contact. Every few months, you rotate spam number. If your spam number is leaked, you don't care because its only a transient number which isn't more permanently associated with you.

You can also have more permanent proxy numbers for services or people that may need to get in touch with you long term.

Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by procombo on Saturday April 03, 2021 @01:03PM (#26682671)
It's what I have done for years. Only costs $1/mo for the number and a couple hours learning their API.

Your existing cell number can be ported over to Twilio if you are patient.

The only problem is trying to use the number for 2fa. A growing number of banks (like Capital One) block Twilio services from recieving their SMS.

Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by cced on Saturday April 03, 2021 @07:39PM (#26685717)
Can you think of any drawbacks of using this for important services like say PayPal? Or are you strictly using this for throw away products and services?
Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by Phenomenit on Saturday April 03, 2021 @12:58PM (#26682624)
Is this available to people outside of the US as well and is there a guide for setting this up? Last time I used twilio for a basic sms gateway there was a lot of clicking and typing.
Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by 29083011397778 on Saturday April 03, 2021 @02:40PM (#26683529)
I've been using voip.ms in Canada to great success. Even SMS codes from banks and Whatsapp work correctly. Excellent service, highly recommend, especially with voicemail auto-transcription (then sent to email) and SMS from desktop via email.
Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by OminousWeapons on Saturday April 03, 2021 @01:02PM (#26682665)
I think it is available for people outside the US.

https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/223179908-Setti...

I would recommend using the Studio workflow which is GUI based and easy.

https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/115016033048-Fo...

Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by OminousWeapons on Sunday April 04, 2021 @05:02PM (#26692804)
I forgot to mention this earlier, but you can also proxy outbound calls through Twilio:

https://www.twilio.com/blog/make-receive-calls-twilio-number...