3 ms·

> Location tracking is my biggest concern ... but I don't see much way around it when you're using the cell network for backhaul If the cellular provider doesn

> Location tracking is my biggest concern ... but I don't see much way around it when you're using the cell network for backhaul If the cellular provider doesn't know who you are, why does it matter if they track your location? Under my proposed plan, they won't know who you are because the prepaid cellular service is anonymous and all your data on the wire is encrypted and going to the same VPN host. > Getting on the PSTN anonymously seems like a completely different problem, and I'm less interested in solving it Is there a VOIP service that will take bitcoin or some other anonymous currency? The problem is that you have to give people your name and phone number (unless you do only outgoing calls); inevitably they will become associated in many databases.

mindslight 11y ago
> If the cellular provider doesn't know who you are, why does it matter if they track your location? I guess they won't, so you'd defeat some commercial advertising. But the location information still gets dumped to government databases which will easily correlate your path to home/work/friends/CC etc and find an identity for that IMEI. It's similar to saying that Bitcoin is "anonymous" - sure, if you jump through a lot of opsec hoops you can achieve privacy for a particular transaction. But the system lacks the stronger property of untraceability, which is required for common casual users to retain their privacy. Psuedononymous PSTN access doesn't actually seem that hard - a prepaid CC to some VOIP provider. It's just orthogonal to location tracking, so I haven't thought much about it.