The article is about an EU incident, but something similar happened recently in the US.
The article also mentioned names of 2 websites which anyone could use. IDK about you, in my country there’s no such thing as a burner because of ID requirements and using services like this, paid with monero, is the only way to create an account privately without resorting to criminal activity such as using fake IDs.
The thing in the US was about a sim farm in New York and the reporting was pretty stupid from what I could tell. At present you can get US mobile phones and sims without ID. Also, most services that send sms validation don’t care if it’s a real mobile number. I use a VoIP number and it’s usually fine.
If you’re using a hosted sim to forward SMS to your real phone # or email, you have to expect that a determined or powerful enough opponent will link the two. What happens then probably depends on what you were doing.
Yeah I don’t currently use any ride hailing apps and haven’t posted to Craigslist in ages. Some services will be more paranoid than others. Depends on how much fraud they encounter I guess.
The article is about an EU incident, but something similar happened recently in the US.
The article also mentioned names of 2 websites which anyone could use. IDK about you, in my country there’s no such thing as a burner because of ID requirements and using services like this, paid with monero, is the only way to create an account privately without resorting to criminal activity such as using fake IDs.
The thing in the US was about a sim farm in New York and the reporting was pretty stupid from what I could tell. At present you can get US mobile phones and sims without ID. Also, most services that send sms validation don’t care if it’s a real mobile number. I use a VoIP number and it’s usually fine.
If you’re using a hosted sim to forward SMS to your real phone # or email, you have to expect that a determined or powerful enough opponent will link the two. What happens then probably depends on what you were doing.
Not my experience, the last time I had to use my provider’s real SIM SMS service was when registering with a local taxi hail app.
Yeah I don’t currently use any ride hailing apps and haven’t posted to Craigslist in ages. Some services will be more paranoid than others. Depends on how much fraud they encounter I guess.