Life Without a SIM Card
Life Without a SIM Card
Last week, I wrote about how our phone numbers have evolved into a unique, static ID that companies abuse to track us. As anecdotal evide...
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.
MAC addresses go brrr
Everyone conviently forgets about MAC address spoofing. Some operating systems let you set a Random MAC address on each connection. It's great.
How is it that there are people still unaware of this?
😂
Hotspot location is still tracked by the cell network though.
The first part of the article still holds. You can live on wifi.
Not always. Where I am, for example, it's law to KYC users of wi-fi hotspots, usually by phone number. Good news: there are a lot of places that don't bother and just have the wi-fi behind a password. Bad news: whether you find such a hotspot is very inconsistent, even within the same chain. So I don't bother and just always use my phone as a modem.
Also, apparently bypassing authentication may be as simple as stealing the MAC address of someone who has already KYCd, but that sounds like it would be even less consistent.
While some might criticize the author's methods, I did learn something cool from this article.
https://calyxinstitute.org/membership/
Unthrottled, unmetered, (supposedly) truly unlimited internet,
For not much more than I pay for my (definitely throttled) mobile service, it'd seem like a fair trade between the two. With certain considerations given to service availability and local network speed.
There is even a pixel phone given to members of certain memberships.
Something I wanted to make easily available to anyone passing through here.
$33 a month even after the discount? I just don't see what the overpricing is for.