38 sats \ 11 replies \ @grayruby OP 26 Aug \ parent \ on: The Freedom Tech Stack meta
Where does one get an anonymous phone?
If you connect to a mobile network, you can be pseudonymous at best as your number is known. You can use WiFi at public hotspots or an eSIM bought anonymously.
I don't know about where you are, but in the UK you can buy a physical SIM card without KYC. And a used phone bought on eBay is KYC free too, but the seller knows the address and name it was sent to.
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I know that it is possible to get SIM cards without registration in the UK or Czech Republic, unfortunately, this is not possible in the country where I live.
I bought my phone in an apple store with cash without KYC.
The thing is that I have this one phone, and even with eSIM, my phone has a unique identification number registered by the mobile operators (this IMEI), so they essentially see this number around my home, work, other places. Based on these patterns I could be easily identified. Solution could be to use multiple phones and eSIMs, but who would do that?
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I am in Canada. I will do some research.
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burner in walmart :-) $15
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I don’t know. I know that there are phones that allow you to reconfigure IMEI (not easy to do though).
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Gotcha.
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Problem is that if someone comes up with an idea of how to anonymize phones, sell such anonymous phones, or create a totally new mobile network which doesn’t record any data, they would likely end like Durov now.
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