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I wish ring.to was still a going concern for new users. They (Bandwidth.com) closed it to new users but existing users can stay on--ostensibly for money someda
by techsupporter 10y ago
I wish ring.to was still a going concern for new users. They (Bandwidth.com) closed it to new users but existing users can stay on--ostensibly for money someday in the future--and I'm glad we've not been booted. I have six numbers parked there and only rarely give out my real mobile number.
I can exchange SMS (and MMS!) with these numbers, make and receive phone calls, and short codes even work. To me, having alternate numbers to give to companies for "security" or "identity verification" is like having a password manager: it means not having all of my eggs in one basket. (Plus, as a kind-of-bonus, ring.to has no live customer support so--as long as nothing goes wrong and I need to talk to them--there's nowhere to socially engineer to port a number away.)
- jstanley 10y agoI run https://smsprivacy.org/ https://smsprivacy.org/ (anonymous SMS phone numbers). You can't make calls but "a password manager for phone numbers" is a great way to describe it.