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... 😔
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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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Simon Lapscher ↑
@slapscher
Wild! So they’re running their own Telco essentially, and all calls are routed through them?
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pugson
@pugson
unknown but my assumption is that they are running a scaled down version of a telco and virtually routing phone calls to their own infra that pulls login codes from their phone 2FA service and sends them through the fragment site after you authenticate with your TON wallet
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Simon Lapscher ↑
@slapscher
Pretty cool! They don’t really need their token at all to do that (in fact, it adds a lot of friction), but I get it they’re trying to build utility.
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