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Can someone with experience doing ZK Proofs please poke holes in this design?

Don’t spread misinformation. SMS cannot have e2ee.

Sure you can wrap it with some other layer of encryption. But, as you say, that doesn’t work because the recipient can’t decrypt it.

So he’s created the next best thing: a so-called mobile virtual network operator, or MVNO, a kind of virtual phone carrier that pays one of the big, established ones—in Phreeli’s case, T-Mobile—to use its infrastructure.

The result is something like a cellular prophylactic. The towers are T-Mobile’s…

So T-Mobile sees all of your DNS queries, the numbers of everyone you call, and can read all your SMS messages. And fingerprint your voice. And triangulate your position.

So, unless you avoid all of this with DOH, never making phone calls (and making sure no friends or family or employer or banks call you), never turn the phone on at your home address, and never using SMS: they’ll be able to identity the owner of your plan within the first week of typical usage data collection

Merrill says. “If we were able to set up our own network of cell towers globally, we can set the privacy policies of what those towers see and collect.”

Well that’s ambitious

You can still do it.

Just buy from a heavily trafficked grocery store. Arrive by foot. Wear a good covid mask. Pay with cash. Wait a few weeks after purchase before use.

Before you turn it on, cover all cameras with tape and disable the microphone if you can (or plug it with a cutoff headphone jack).

Cut a piece of paper and wedge it between the battery leads. Only pull it out and turn it on in a public place far from your home. And you have to burn the phone after every service you activate.

Good point. Many companies offer discounts for crypto. It’s disappointing to see a crypto surcharge here :(

No. It’s fucking Merrill.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_Liberties_Union_v._Ashcroft

Get out.

Thanks op.

Do they offer post paid plans, so I can use the bill for proof of residency?

That’s fine.

Monero it is then

Huh. Loads fine on tor with JavaScript disabled. What error message do you see?

This is why I don’t install software that’s not on fdroid

Honestly, all the open source privacy hardware on CrowdSupply is worth including:

https://www.crowdsupply.com/security-and-privacy