Anonymous eSIMs were there missing piece for a digital life with dignity. Without Bitcoin, we wouldn't have those either (imaging having to pay for one with a credit card). It's all starting to come together, piece by piece.

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Although, I wish I could shuffle the IMEI everytime the phone connects to the network, like with mac addresses.
I see so many people getting arrested for things they didn’t do, simply because they purchased something in their name. In my opinion, this is not okay. It’s very careless. Where is the humanity?
I love silent.link. I'm using it right now whilst overcoming sanctions. I used @ZEUS to pay and said fuck you to the USSA, ESSU and my very own Stalag, the USSK
I really think everyone needs another bloody word for what they are attempting to say...
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graffiti 1 year ago
Edward Snowden's avatar Edward Snowden
If you take your phone between even just your home and work —doxxed locations— it is trivial to associate it with your true-name identity even if all of the hardware and services are perfectly anonymous. Even journalists have managed these kind of investigations. "Anonymized" location data is unfortunely not anonymous — it *can never* be anonymous. And yet it is sold like any other product. Your phone's movements through physical space are unique. Even if you live in a building of 400 people, the movements of 399 of them are not going to match the tower records of your phone's movements. Even if you work in the same office. People's geographic movements are unique—and identifying.
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eSIMS are just another way of tracking humans & monitoring them to further control them.
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Karadenizli 1 year ago
One of my favorite ever clips is the Seth for Privacy interview with the Silent Link founder, specifically the moment where Seth is doing his usual schtick where he talks about privacy from a philosophical point and sentimentalizes it. He asks the guy if he had childhood experiences that created his passion for privacy. Now this Russian guy doesn't have an answer and it feels like he wants to say "the fuck are you talking about? We sell esims to drug dealers." Here's the episode. It's pretty good overall. image
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Karadenizli 1 year ago
Bro I just found it funny. Great episode btw. Love your work.