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Isn't this the same thing as a VPN?
by kanox 6y ago
Isn't this the same thing as a VPN?
- dsr_ 6y agoNo, it's a financial blind: from the telco's point of view, the only subscriber is Purism. From your point of view, your telco is Purism. Nevertheless, once you start spending 8 hours/day in the same spot for days on end, it will be pretty easy to link you from tower records to traffic, and then to your real world identity.
- lrvick 6y agoThose like me who dislike cell carriers selling our location data are best off using cellular data sparingly and not consistently at fixed locations when there is available wifi. Combining this with financial blinding and you can likely use LTE at a protest in an oppressive country without much chance you get pinned down there and arrested later.
- boogies 6y agoThis: you can keep a Librem 5’s modem’s hardware kill switch flipped to off when you’re staying in the same place for 8 hours.
- gcb 6y agoIf you care about blinding the Tel Co of your financial information, sorry to say but you are a criminal. Financial information is the ONE (single) information they cannot resell. Well, technically they can sell information if you miss account etc. And all your personal info if you default. But that is another subject. All the other information they do sell, they will continue to sell just the same. Including DNS/email access times/location, etc. Because there is no way to provide you with service without that information. And that is all conveniently associated with the phone number, which you gladly uses on facebook (or it discover via the App if you install it on android) So, yes. This is pretty much a VPN. Just one more party that can influence your connection before the intended termination.
- swiley 6y agoI think it additionally protects people from identifying you by your phone number without a subpoena.