Create an anonymous Signal phone number with Android
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Re: Create an anonymous Signal phone number with Android
#2You can't be serious. Ain't nobody got time for that.
Re: Create an anonymous Signal phone number with Android
#3Very interesting. But what happens if someone gets that temporary phone number and re-registers it on a different handset?
Re: Create an anonymous Signal phone number with Android
#4Very interesting. But what happens if someone gets that temporary phone number and re-registers it on a different handset?
i was thinking you'd need that temp number only to register gvoice
Re: Create an anonymous Signal phone number with Android
#5I'm curious why Whisper Systems aren't allowing registration with just a handle instead of tying accounts to a PSTN number. Telegram already allows this.
Re: Create an anonymous Signal phone number with Android
#6Can't you just buy a prepaid phone at some corner market, and not use it for a month (to wait for any video surveillance to overwrite)?
Re: Create an anonymous Signal phone number with Android
#7I'm curious why Whisper Systems aren't allowing registration with just a handle instead of tying accounts to a PSTN number. Telegram already allows this.
> Telegram already allows this.
No it doesn't. You can have a handle, but only after verifying a number first.
Re: Create an anonymous Signal phone number with Android
#8I'm curious why Whisper Systems aren't allowing registration with just a handle instead of tying accounts to a PSTN number. Telegram already allows this.
IIRC, the last time the question was raised, the answer was "because that's what the average person expects".
Re: Create an anonymous Signal phone number with Android
#9This is stupid. Wants to be anonymous, uses Google.
Google records your calls, the number of times you access their service, the messages, the IP address you are using and happily shares this information with your favorite government information service.
Wake up. If you are not paying for the service from Google, YOU are the service..
Re: Create an anonymous Signal phone number with Android
#10I think, that it's not that anonymous.
Weak spots:
1. I wouldn't recommend buying used devices, you don't know what has been done with the device, what's running there, even if you reflash it from scratch. Try to buy somehow (anonymously) device in still original and sealed packaging.
2. One would need to first install modified AOSP/CyanogenMod with patched core libraries/apps/services to return fake/random values for device serial number, WiFi and Bluetooth MAC addresses. Otherwise some of the apps might leak this information over the air, even in clear text form.
3. You need to remove or somehow power off the GSM baseband, otherwise you can still be tracked.
I'm not an expert in this area, so there might be a lot other missing weak spots in this guide.