I have a domain and I use a hosted email I use a catchall email address to create an address on the fly for webshops and such. If they get conprimised or spam me I can block that email.

Is there awauy to have something like this for the new Identifier on the web: the phone number

  • brownmustardminion
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    1 year ago

    I’m curious if anybody has a more “self-hosted” solution, but I use burner numbers through the MySudo app and simply delete the number and buy a new one every few months.

    If you look up Michael Bazell, he has a strategy for bulk buying voip numbers by tricking voip providers into believing you’re a large established business. You could buy dozens of numbers and just cycle through them. But that method requires a lot of work and social engineering and the providers are becoming privy to those tactics.

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      1 year ago

      Probably more trouble than you’re looking for, but I run an Asterisk VOIP server. I keep a couple long term numbers and sometimes cycle through disposable numbers.