Texting App/burner number

[bambino]

Originally Posted by Iceman

Try and find a pay phone.

I’m old enough to know where the ones that worked where! And a local call cost a dime.

[isaywhynot]

Originally Posted by bambino

I’m old enough to know where the ones that worked where! And a local call cost a dime.

I need one in the east end or out in Moon

[sexymaid_69]

Originally Posted by isaywhynot

I just bought a trackphone today. Seems the only ways to activate it is either on line or calling from another line. Any sugestions? I am not super tech savy.

Go to your local library computer

[tannana]

Originally Posted by Dreamgurrl

TOR was created by the Feds. You trust that? Okay 👌🏻

You do realize that you can read the TOR code, right? You further realize that people have read the code, right (who do this kind of thing for a living)? You presumably also realize that TOR itself was indeed not created by the feds. Onion routing was developed by two guys who worked for the feds. They then left government service before committing a line of code to the codebase that makes up the current TOR core. Finally, the government has a vested interest in using TOR. For an agent in a hostile country or for dissidents almost everywhere, it's insanely powerful. But it's open source. Can you point to the line of code which bothers you?

The government also created the integrated circuit, GPS, the internet itself, baby formula, and chose the very encryption algorithm around which the vast majority of what you encrypt, including your phone, is based (AES). Do you not trust your smartphone?

I mean this seriously: to people in the infosec business, the idea you should not trust something because the feds had a hand in it is right up there with folks who insinuate the moon landings were faked because the government did it.

[tannana]

Originally Posted by sexymaid_69

Go to your local library computer

Or get a copy of TAILS (google it), change the MAC address, and sit in a McDonalds parking lot.

[isaywhynot]

Originally Posted by sexymaid_69

Go to your local library computer

That worked Thanks

[DrivesAllDay]

I saw something on the local news about phone number spoofing used by telemarketers & scammers. I dont remember the name of the law they want to put in place, but it would add an identifier to phone numbers so you know its legitimate.



What that has me wondering is, how will this affect Burner apps?

[sexymaid_69]

Originally Posted by tannana

You do realize that you can read the TOR code, right? You further realize that people have read the code, right (who do this kind of thing for a living)? You presumably also realize that TOR itself was indeed not created by the feds. Onion routing was developed by two guys who worked for the feds. They then left government service before committing a line of code to the codebase that makes up the current TOR core. Finally, the government has a vested interest in using TOR. For an agent in a hostile country or for dissidents almost everywhere, it's insanely powerful. But it's open source. Can you point to the line of code which bothers you?

The government also created the integrated circuit, GPS, the internet itself, baby formula, and chose the very encryption algorithm around which the vast majority of what you encrypt, including your phone, is based (AES).

Nothing is more erotic than a BIG brain.

[tannana]

Originally Posted by DrivesAllDay

I saw something on the local news about phone number spoofing used by telemarketers & scammers. I dont remember the name of the law they want to put in place, but it would add an identifier to phone numbers so you know its legitimate.



What that has me wondering is, how will this affect Burner apps?

It (probably) won't. Caller-ID is easily and trivially spoofed. Most burner apps don't do that. Most scammers do. If your app is aboveboard and not spoofing caller-ID (and is run via a phone switch which deals honestly with the forthcoming SHAKEN/STIR stuff), it probably won't matter. If you spoof your caller-ID? Will absolutely matter. MOst burners don't--they represent the number they gave you. The vast majority of the technical work to block "scam" calls relies on the premise that scammers don't care if calling them on the spoof number works, whereas most people with a burner phone/app actually want to get incoming texts and/or calls. Different ball of yarn.

[DrivesAllDay]

Good, thats a relief. I wondered about that.

[not2badhowbouturself7]

Not everyone has it but the signal app is best app out there. I use talkatone too lol, not safe at all, just convenient.

[Jacuzzme]

TOR is painfully slow. If you switch nodes 100x you might find one able to load google in half an hour. Best bet, imo, is to buy, or better yet have someone buy for you, a burner phone with cash.

[sexymaid_69]

It's like we're going on covert missions here...
I think some of you are overthinking this.

Drop phones
A separate tablet or smart phone and only access the net from public WiFi
Wipe the memory daily, some programs will do this automatically once they're set up right.
Screen your prospective friends

Lastly
Don't say stupid shit that'll either be evidence or will scare a lady into darkness.

[tannana]

Originally Posted by not2badhowbouturself7

Not everyone has it but the signal app is best app out there. I use talkatone too lol, not safe at all, just convenient.

Signal is arguably the most secure “easy” comma app available today. The problem is that it requires a phone number to activate. It offers easy privacy but only as much anonymity as the underlying activation number.

[bambino]

Well, it’s always great to protect yourself. But it seems you need to be a CIA agent to get laid in the hobby anymore. What’s the use? SMH.