This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Bane of my life as about a year ago my dad switched his sim and immediately started pestering me about not being able to log into his accounts.
Yes he got rid of the old number completly and expected me to somehow make his logins work. This is still going on to this day when he complains to me something doesn't work it's because he's tied it to his old phone number.
I've been considering getting a pager or a burner phone just for this
Most phones are dual Sim these days
Better to not associate this number to your main phone anyway. Less likelyhood to have the info stolen from you.
I absolutely love this.
Stop making personal information into digital ids because when it inevitably ends up in some kind of data breach. These companies all throw their hands up saying sucks to be you.
Nah, man. Gotta get my $2.97 check.
I'm in a quest to find a good email provider that doesn't ask for a cellphone or another email address while creating an account, cock.li used to do this but now it's "getting back on its feet"
Ionos enabled me to do that.
But I chose not to.
create 2 proton mail account und use each other as a backup e-mail
Don't u need an existing email to bootstrap that process.
How do you get DSL/coax internet when you can't visit web pages?
Spoiler: With the good old telephone.
nope, you can skip for the first account and then validate after the fact
Just signed up for Tuta and they do not ask for this.
posteo.de
There used to be a way to make Google accounts with no number but that's probably been patched. I generally refuse to add numbers if I can help it.
Proton, Mailbox & fastmail are all good options. Best way to avoid it is self-hosting but that is beyond most people (as in time-consuming).
Proton?
Proton? More like pro Nazi.
OFTL Did they support Trump?
The CEO made a remark about Trump, and used his corporate account for it.
If I recall correctly (no press statement was made by Proton), it was a personal remark on a corporate account, which he was quick to allow anyone to do. It also didn't support Trump as a whole, just a remark Orangeman made about getting small business a level playing field (which I totally trust from an olicharch).
I'm still sticking with Proton for the foreseeable future, as its privacy awareness and advocacy is still a core business value.
Their founder did, very openly and expressively, it was quite bizarre
Then he tried to walk it back by gaslighting.
"I wasn't being political" said the man who was clearly being political.
Personally I use mailbox.org, it's not free, but you are not the product
To the same audience: quit selling my fucking phone number!
I ditched a phone number I had for 10+ years because it was leaked everywhere. Only a few short months after updating my number with the DMV and a handful of other government agencies I started receiving scam calls/messages again.
At some point we need to adopt some fucking privacy laws. This is absolutely bonkers—is no one else fed up??
Edit: I already know how to silence unknown callers. What I want is to not have the problem in the first place, ideally by 1) having companies not sell personal data to third parties and 2) being able to block spoofed (non-encrypted) caller ID.
Don't worry, here in Europe we are full of privacy laws but I still receive tents of spam calls per day. Usually from non UE countries faking the number with my country numbers.
Anything with a London 020 number is guaranteed to be a man with an Indian accent pretending to be from British Telecom.
Oh everyone is fed up but we just elected a guy and government who is sure to make it all way way way worse.
He just helped put the nail in the coffin of the lie that crypto is for anything but scams, don't worry, it's gonna get real bad before it gets any better.
This should be what digital ID looks like:
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
mDMEZ26+ARYJKwYBBAHaRw8BAQdAsUGMjbGNUyyz9PHsHKP4xj/tIfYIuHb4miPH 0iCPpu60K0VSUk9SOiBFYXJ0aC5leGUgaGFzIGNyYXNoZWQgPG5vQGVtYWlsLmV4 ZT6IcgQTFggAGgQLCQgHAhUIAhYBAhkBBYJnbr4BAp4BApsDAAoJEI6E3uMn31Z3 028BAM5o8ER0dqTsxFlZSgZOvvgFHGuy2eFgF3rULkGKl1KrAP9fdE7WwnYbBer/ AVmw5jr0P5m/XsEQQrSueuk/FLYBBbg4BGduvgESCisGAQQBl1UBBQEBB0BDR0Bv pf4jxbwp9rVowFTnL59NGqnnh6XyF/LjAoYDGgMBCAeIYQQYFggACQWCZ26+AQKb DAAKCRCOhN7jJ99Wd1dMAP45xmN03SodkWHi7PYOORqNXJUBdMzzfsRXdqE8ZXaW vAD+PqNqPcbwJYCOEAXkg7DlZ0SX3o9MViZLdzHFQ3TpUA8= =krDh -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
PGP Key Fingerprint: 857957d40f06cc816fd3d29a8e84dee327df5677
Should be good until quantum computers come around
Now type it a form that doesn’t allow copy and paste.
Yeah... I did this kind of thing before as a password and found that out the hard way
The California DMV requires you to renew your vehicle registration every year by paying with a bank account number (no card) which is like a 30ish digit number and they disable paste. If you get it wrong they won’t notify you in any way until you get pulled over by a cop who is one bad sneeze away from murdering you. It’s a great system.
Bank account numbers are, like, 8-10 digits. Certainly not 30ish.
What? Mine are 6 digits. Plus the routing number
Still, not 30ish digits like that person said. Hyperbole be damned.
I'm sad PGP didn't become a popular way to log into websites. A challenge-response protocol could have even been built into web browsers. Big tech is reinventing that idea as Passkey, but with a very big tech flavor.
