Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Newyana2" Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Codes sent by text message Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2024 14:24:25 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 42 Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2024 19:24:31 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="bca367bd7bcc0e3d17097779be1b00d5"; logging-data="2615887"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX194PdguR+X68An1zlvZV1SaQ4Qon+Rllo0=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:QVszBx1atz4AT8onwYWtHs4ZC0o= X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5512 X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5512 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Bytes: 3050 "The Real Bev" wrote | WTF? Why is the google voice number not a REAL phone number? | As V said, the simple answer is that they want to spy. Cellphones are so ubiquitous that they've become like prison camp ID nubmber tattoos. It's assumed that you have a number to give them. GMail is a good example. It's a low security medium and people generally don't send anything critical via email, yet Google wants to ID your device and/or your cellphone in order to let you get email. That allows them to greatly increase the volume and accuracy of surveillance. Also, the more businesses require that you register a phone #, the more likely that everyone will be permanently IDed by their number. Some services will send a computer spoken number to a landline, but those sites are few. I'm surprised the evangelical Christians are not calling this the mark of the beast. I guess they're all busy texting. Recently I was thinking of buying some stock and checked out the options. Not only am I concerned about the privacy issue, but I also don't want to be trusting people with my money when getting it back requires that I have a cellphone and not lose it. Stockbroker websites don't charge for purchases, but only because they can automate the whole thing and collect personal data. But what if I lose my Tracfone and can't get that number again... then get faced with a computer telling me that I don't seem to be me, with no human recourse? Do I need a fullscale, $60/month phone in order to own my phone number? I called up Schwabb to ask them about it. I got a very friendly, competent man who said that I could just skip the cellphone entry on the application webpage. Not true. He also said I could sign up in person at their office. But then what if I try to make a trade and it won't let me do it without a cellphone number? The trouble is that no one's minding the store. If humans are involved, it costs money... So I gave up on the investing idea. I didn't really have much to spare, anyway. :)