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If the FCC Bans Burner Phones, It Could Be a Privacy Nightmare
Sunshinehttps://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/if-the-fcc-bans-burner-phones-it-could-be-a-privacy-nightmare/
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If they were so serious about curbing spam calls, they could just as well mandate that telephony providers figure it out. This is just another attempt to ensure they can track and surveil dissent.
No spam call center is using a burner phone. They’re using SIP trunks/VoIP lines through spoofed phone numbers.
CMV burner phones were always questionable in their privacy. How do you know the anonymous seller of your burner phone, isn’t the government in disguise?
schnurrito??? Isn’t a burner phone just an ordinary phone you can buy at all of the same places? Who of us is confused about terminology?
Someone got tricked into the gold package by their pot dealer it sounds like. A burner is just a cheap as chips pre-paid phone. You go to walmart or a gas station, pay with cash, the number gets assigned at activation (not in the store) and you top it up with pre-paid cards. Very difficult to figure out who bought what in those situations.
This person seems to think they have to buy a burner from a shady person in an alley that may or may not be the FBI. It’s like if Michael Scott needed a burner phone…
buy at…places like brick and mortar stores? How would that get you any privacy in the first place? Cameras in the store can identify you. The store could ask you to take your mask and sunglasses off before serving you. And then there’s payment tracking. Even cash would have to be laundered before-hand to be safe.
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Most spam and robocalling are not done from burner phones they are done through websites of which the FCC is fully aware. This seems like it’s more about monitoring people’s activities and preventing anyone without a Real ID from even getting a crappy burner phone.
Sim farms are also a thing used by threat actors.
They’re a low cost way of building out robo-call infrastructure. But this does nothing to prevent malicious actors from getting their hands on cheap hardware.
Yep. Just another means to control the populace and extract more money out of them.
Look at programs like MethCheck, putting pseudoephedrine products behind the counter and putting a limit on purchasing…requiring ID to purchase.
So now we’ve got: - A limit on how much Sudafed we can buy (without a prescription, which is it’s own level of bullshit because now you gotta see a doctor) - A requirement to have valid state-issued ID to purchase medicine. - Phenylephrine, a glorified placebo, taking over all cold medicine. - Poor people can’t steal medicine (I see this as a con) - Smurfs. - Just as much meth.