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5 sats \ 11 replies \ @optimism 12 Dec \ parent \ on: Jor almost lost a lot of BTC from a Signal scam bitcoin

Would you say it's the same actor / shared playbook?

121 sats \ 10 replies \ @itsrealfake 12 Dec

just watching the video now...

when he says "signal which I consider to be the most private trusted app on my phone" I kinda lost all faith in his ability to think about security. signal's a web-connected honeypot.

don't get me wrong, I use it all day every day to communicate, because it's the best I've gotten my friends to adopt so far. I use it on my Mac too... so I'm no paragon of opsec.

but (I believe) signal is pwned, and has been for quite a while... probably since slightly before Moxie left the project.

Sounds like a similar actor/playbook.

I saved that person's Signal as "scammer" and a have since seen him show up in other btc groups. looks like his profile name published in Signal is "Rachel" right now

102 sats \ 9 replies \ @optimism 12 Dec

All your media gets uploaded to the cloud so they can log IPs - it doesn't really matter if they are compromised. Non-vpn signal usage is a big problem.

I'm going to need to rollover my old no-kyc prepaid t-mo number soon. And I haven't found a good non-kyc alternative that I can be sure of to persist for a while. So I'm trying to decide between alternate software that doesn't need a phone number, or doing more research.

100 sats \ 8 replies \ @Scoresby 12 Dec

I've had a silent.link esim that has persisted for three years now with only occasional use and topping up (at least once or twice a year).

It's their data only esim though, so can't speak to how persistent the number they offer are.

102 sats \ 7 replies \ @optimism 12 Dec

Is there a non-negligible cost to rolling your esim?

100 sats \ 4 replies \ @Scoresby 12 Dec

by "rolling" do you mean reinstalling the esim on a new device or topping it up?

I assume "rollover" in your previous comment meant you had to get a new number or a new esim.

in my case, I've been using the same esim and haven't been required to change it or buy a new one. Just send sats to an address and top it up when I need more data.

I may be misunderstanding your question though.

102 sats \ 3 replies \ @optimism 12 Dec

No you got it right.

So what I do for data, besides switching devices, is instead of topping up, I just get a new esim every time. One less correlation. Just in case. I don't trust silent.link or lnvpn, but then I'm probably a toxic conspiracy theorist lmao

I dont need a sim for usage, just for a number.

PS: Can you share us some intel for silent.link? See #1091068

100 sats \ 2 replies \ @Scoresby 12 Dec

my kids both have to do science projects early next year. I wonder if I could convince them that this would be a fun project.

102 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 12 Dec

YESSSS!

If not this awesome hack, then this one?

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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @itsrealfake 12 Dec

science projects or science experiments?

I've been lingering on this wifi kills plants experiment I saw. my radio pro friend suspects that the wifi router is heating the environment, and that's damaging the growth.

I think theres a serious question to be settled about whether 2.4g signal damages plants.

so that's my 2SATs hypothesis:

2.4 damages plants

the current best picture I have suggests it's the heat of the router killing the plants and not the actual wifi

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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @itsrealfake 12 Dec

used silent.link for my trip to Japan. slightly expensive, but super effective.

haven't ever tried in the US

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 12 Dec

I've used both lnvpn and a couple of bitrefill white label esims in the US (despite my t-mo physical sim being US - I figured using that in the US is asking for trouble) and it worked fine. lnvpn has been much cheaper for me than what bitrefill offers.