pugson
@pugson
damn telegram is killing it lately. you can buy a random anon number to use telegram securely without a sim card. the number is tied to your TON crypto wallet. https://fragment.com/number/random https://i.imgur.com/kex36ZG.png
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pugson
@pugson
- no monthly payments to keep the number - secured by your wallet - anonymous - prevents sim swapping - adds a new account with extra 20 bot api tokens
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pugson
@pugson
unfortunately it only works with telegram. i would love a service like this for all social media accounts! got friends who were simswapped and had their lives ruined by teenagers who wanted to flip short instagram + twitter handles for profit. sending out nudes to their families from cached snapchat photos... π
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pugson
@pugson
i believe this is how it works: they are routing +888 toll numbers through their own infra to accept calls from the telegram 2FA service and then securely send you a login code after authenticating with your wallet. the numbers are NFTs on the TON blockchain.
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pugson
@pugson
it seems like they purchased the +888 area code from the International Telecommunication Union. it was previously used for Telecommunications for Disaster Relief https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_for_Disaster_Relief
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pugson
@pugson
the country code was released in july 2022 so this is pretty recent. they must be their own carrier operating independently without any jurisdiction? what a rabbithole lol. i'm so intrigued in how all this works https://i.imgur.com/tNhSqRA.png
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