I learned about silent.link from CD77. Very exciting project. Looks like (for low usage) the data price can be quite decent as well in certain areas.
One issue I have with it is that you'd ideally have to use this on a phone whose IMEIs are not tied to your identity (so no KYC SIMs ever used on it).
They said on CD77 that the physical-SIM and eSIM IMEIs are different and thus the network operator cannot easily link these, but from what I've seen, the two IMEIs seem to be adjacent (apart from the final Luhn checksum digit), e.g:
- 004101846898885
- 004101846898893
So it seems they would be trivially linkable.
Are there devices where these IMEIs are at least somewhat unrelated?
shafemtol /
npub1mh…anahj
2023-02-19 03:06:33
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