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I have two numbers. One personal 'always on' number that I only give out to a few family members and friends, and never put it on the net. My other number is st
by legrande 5y ago
I have two numbers. One personal 'always on' number that I only give out to a few family members and friends, and never put it on the net. My other number is strictly for Internet activities and I'm signed up to roughly 20 services with that number (Twitter, Facebook, Patreon etc). This is the number that gets random robocalls and sketchy SMS messages with weird links in them. I have no doubt this is because Facebook & other services leak your number through some yet undiscovered bug. I also have voicemail turned off on both numbers so I don't have to worry about voicemail spam.
As for email: spam is a fact of life, but can be managed by things like Simplelogin & Firefox Relay.
- dan-robertson 5y agoAll it takes is one of your family members to download some dodgy app and give it access to their contacts for the secret number to be revealed. I suspect this is more likely than eg Facebook leaking a number by mistake. You probably have gotten lucky by sharing your secret number only with a small number of people though I don’t know for sure.
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