Life Without a SIM Card

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• vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hmm … the author uses a hotspot connected with a SIM. Their whole argument hinges on not being tracked, but their hotspot is with them all the time. Seems like a massive hole in their privacy argument.

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  • hummingbird@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Good point. The author argues that:

    they buy the device on your behalf so your real name never gets attached to it.

    However it is relatively easy to attribute a sim card to person simply based on its usage. You also leave the same movement patterns on the mobile network. I don’t see a benefit here compared to just using a sim card from a service provider that does not sell their customer data.

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  • IllNess@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah. He addresses it without much of a response.

    And there’s good arguments to be made that my hotspot is still trackable. Plus some of the apps I keep aren’t great for privacy (like Duolingo, for example). Try as I might, there’s only so much “harm reduction” I can do, and I could certainly get more protection by doing more. But as I’ve written about before, privacy is a spectrum, not a binary state of being.

    He keeps a lot of crap that has user names and passwords. A VPN won’t really help with those.

    He also uses free public WiFi. It’s probably okay since a lot of phones have randomized MAC addresses now but with facial recognition, they can easily attach that address with your identity.

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  • merde@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    naomi brockwell - why i don’t have a sim in my phone ☞ www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyirQOCUUK8

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• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • solrize@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I thought about doing that to protect against evil firmware in the phone’s baseband radio, but meh.

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