Re: Schneier, Data and Goliath: no hope for privacy

On Wed, 19 Feb 2025, Salvador Mirzo wrote:

D <nospam@example.net> writes:
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Another option is to have 2 phone numbers. One for work, and one for
friends (without quotationmarks).

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Two phones is a good idea.  Or two chips, but then you have to be
careful not to accidentally share your contacts with the app.  Gotta be
careful.  Two phones is safer because then you have no contacts in the
second one.

I have a dumbphone with 2 sim slots. It's ok, does the job and nothing more. It's a nokia 110 4g. The good thing is that since it has two sim slots I can have both my work and private number on the same phone.
Since it is a dumbphone, there are no apps that can leak data between the two. =)

I use the same technique with email. I have a spam-email that
currently has around 20k spam messages in it, and this is the one most
companies get.

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It's also nice to host your own mail.  It's not as difficult as people
have been saying lately.  A few weeks of reading (YMMV) can take you
from zero to up and running.

I buy this from a local european cloud provider. I am very happy with their service. I have thought about hosting myself, but I cannot justify the time.
I do self-host my web site, and 2 SaaS products though on rented servers. =)