Is it even possible to avoid the panopticon? If gift cards don’t work, what’s the way forward?
(Forgive me if this is covered somewhere I didn’t see…)
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Cash, Gold coins, IRC’s or Bitcoin.
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I’m not sure an MVNO will accept a gift card (I was thinking Tello).
Of course, I’d have to also then have an anonymized address to which they could send the sim card.
And I don’t mean to conflate “security” with “privacy”, but I can’t help associate them together (a pathway to building a dossier on every human is governments paying these companies for the information they’ve hoovered…until we can get Western Civilization back to its God-gives-us-unalienable-rights-and-governments-are-instituted-among-men-to-protect-those-rights, every little assertion of agency has to be taken.)
I’m not saying we can go back to the early days of the internet where privacy was a needle-in-the-haystack issue, but I also don’t want to knowingly march like a cow to the meatpacker.
My title was poorly worded…in essence, I’m contemplating an option that may not be available here in the USA.
Ideally, I would visit an MVNO’s real-world kiosk/store, give them something of value (currency, fiat or otherwise) and receive phone/data access (SIM card tied to random account).
I have nothing to hide, but that’s not the point.
It is entirely the principle of the thing.
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In the U.S., you should be able to buy a sim card and service time from prepaid providers in most gas stations or any big box store. I don’t know why you couldn’t pay cash, though I haven’t personally tried yet.
Yes, it certainly is " entirely the principle of the thing".
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