10:46 - Having watched quite a few Rob's videos, I started to appreciate the amount of knowledge and level of carefulness required to keep privacy intact. For example, when Rob says "as long as the email does not have identity info and IP address," he really means a separate email address and VPN, if I am not missing anything. I also liked that gentle nod to Mint Mobile LOL
and any leaks and it all over, you might as just write out all your details to post it to them? there that big and collect data about you form all over the place? just bit of information , sometime actually just one bit '0101' connected to something there already now about you and snowballs from there, one to the next link and so on so on, and if the ball information out the web get that big? you will never be 100% sure us got it all, and it just a small bit that was missed that ball of information regrow from just small bit? just an area phone number, zip code will not take much and your back square one ?
@@robbraxmantech any recommendation on a “degoogled” streaming device? I have a NAS running Jellyfin on my LAN with all of my music,movies, and TV shows uploaded to it. However, I’m looking for a streaming device that doesn’t require me to sign into a apple/google account In order to download apps. Really the only app I need to download is Jellyfin(but without apple or foogle sticking their nose into my business). This is possible on my degoogled phone because I have f-droid. But it would be nice to have a streaming device similar to a Apple TV/ Chromecast that is capable of this so I can stream my music and videos from my NAS locally/remotely onto a TV. Looking forward to your input. Thanks for your time and everything you do!
@SirenaSpades you're right, they do. Docs, RT, radiologists, lots of ppl use them at the hospital. The docs I know use pager direct. Said it's like 200 a year.
Thank You, Bob, for your tireless work in this space. I speak to my friends politely & earnestly about privacy--which my late father valued highly--but, I can see the uncomprehending look in their eyes. Thank you for being a voice in the wilderness. I look forward to being a customer this year.
Bravo! happy for your business and growth in this underserved market. This is like another main sail to help the privacy conscious navigate the world of big tech. Thank you
rob, just wanted to thank you for your ongoing efforts. been subscribed & watching since the piano/mask days and always appreciate the info and dedication. just wish i had the money back then to buy some of your home security stuff :)
This is an excellent idea. This prompts two privacy questions for the future: 1) How do you talk to someone over a telephone knowing it is not ( never) possible for them ( anyone) to know the number you are using? 2) How can you purchase something ( legal) online and never reveal your identity (real)? Legal and confidential Shipping receive addresses are common but what about the instrument you use to pay for the product or service? 95% of Prepaid credit cards do not work.
1) In the part of Europe that I am in, you can dial a prefix number before the number you are calling which will hide your Calling Line Identity from the person you are calling. Indian call centres inject false CLIDs to the suckers that they call in case they block calls where there is no CLID, or to make it look like someone is calling from a specific town or city, and not Mumbai. 2) What you're asking for is a system that guarantees (or "trusts") the transaction without revealing the identity of the transactor. That sounds very much like the concept of the Blockchain from where I am sitting.
The latest excuse they use: we're hacking Tony to keep other hackers away from him. Bullshit. They're harassing the hell out of me online using search results and other ways.
It's sucks when somebody "religious" condemn your daughter for not covering her hair but in fact he masturbates by watching someone's wife photos. Show off piousness only.
Not gonna work for 2FA because most services do a lookup with Number Portability Administration Center (NPAC) and can recognize voip vs. cell phone and won't send 2FA to a VoIP line. 😢
Yes and no. It's true that some services might detect a VOIP number and deny it, _but_ if you use your real number for 2FA and VOIP for everything else it will still work. This kind of makes sense to do anyway because all your normal conversations -voice and SMS- will be encrypted (assuming it gets routed through a VPN). Only 2FA won't be encrypted, but that will pretty much never be an issue. The only _theoretical_ downside is that when doing it this way is that the 2FA will still be vulnerable to SIM swap attack (assuming that you can't just set protections with your provider to make such attacks not viable) *_if_** somehow someone got a hold of the 2FA number.* _however_ considering that the number is only used for 2FA, nobody should have that number as being linked to you (it will only get brute forced SMS spams but not know any info about the owner of the number). So it's rather irrelevant that I even brought this up.
Yes, this is what I was thinking. And one of my banks here in Canada is so stupid, they force you to use the same number for your voice contact that is used for SMS 2FA. You are also forced to use SMS 2FA with no other options. 🤦
@@MsHojat The only real defense to SIM swap is for no one to know the number. Using your real number for 2FA only is not a bad idea but if you were previously using it for everything it's too late. The damage has been done. It's already out there all over the place. You would need to get a new number.
The "solution" is simple... phone numbers aren't private, and never have been. The problem is people using them as a form of ID, and a means of authentication. NOTHING about a phone number is private, _or secure!_ There have been way too many cases of people having things stolen because they lost control of a phone number.
they *are* private (publically speaking) if you segregate with 2, 1 for personal contacts & 1 for business. and for 2FA protection, use an MVNO and don't tell anyone, cuz carrier lookup sites don't list MVNO's.
What is your point? I can’t stand asinine comments like yours it’s like oh there is no privacy and never was. That’s not true there was more privacy and now there is less privacy. There are no absolutes.
@@atlfun08 I didn't say there is no privacy. I said PHONE NUMBERS are not private. You can pretend they are by not telling anyone your number, but the instant you use it for a call, they'll have the number. You can pay the phone company to keep your number _unlisted,_ and they won't put it in the phone book.
What bugs me is why banks, brokerage houses, and such will not adopt 2FA using a separate email address. I have a 2nd email address set up to be used only for 2FA. But yet these businesses will not consider using email addresses, only a phone number for 2FA. Each time I bring this up with them, I get blown off with we don't do that. Just blows my mind.
I stopped banking with an entity like that. Dunno how long I’ll be able to hold out but I’m the only person I know whose actual acct hasn’t been breached. Only my debit card has been compromised but that’s easily swapped out.
Even better if they allowed auth apps. But these systems would have to undergo so much testing for any authentication change that it would be very expensive. I suspect they have run the numbers and concluded that the actual amount of SIM swapping does not justify the expense.
I solved it a long time ago by getting rid of my phone so I would not need a number. By the way, 2FA is a violation to the American Disabilities Act because many disabled people do not own cell phones or email, and all U.S. companies & organizations must be ADA compliant. Next time you get prompted for 2FA, call the company & tell them they are in violation of the ADA and you cannot do 2FA.
Good luck CALLING a company these days ... most put you through auto attendant hell, connect you to people who speak English as a 3rd language or (in the case of most tech companies like Google) don't even have a way to call them.
Automated phone systems are also a violation to the ADA. Even if we can get through they lie & do nothing about it, it's stressful, we need more people to keep making them aware that companies are not in complaince.@@Toby1952
Just because some disabled people don't have mobiles doesn't mean that it would be a violation of the disabilities act. Short of someone who is completely paralyzed, SMS is accessible to everyone. So I don't really buy your argument. I would agree that it _should_ be illegal to require though. I suspect that if that is somehow the case or a law would be made for that it would only only apply to required services such as banks, and hence still keep most people locked out from stuff like Steam or Discord. I tried contacting Discord about not having an SMS phone number and they essentially said "tough luck, we don't want you then". Steam would probably say the same thing (granted this is just for verification for ladder and/or SteamGuard or such, not required for basic Steam use).
Why can't there be a solution to spam calls. I've had Medicare calls not medicare. I've been told I need to call because they are trying to serve papers...nonsense. Servers don't serve papers that way here. I was told there was a problem with my Apple device...yep, real problem. I have never owned an Apple product.
Even better possible solution. Allow users to use your API to send someone a text with a number that when called by that number will connect to the user. If both are users, it could give 2 separate numbers to each user and hide the real ones from each other.
its does make sense. That would solve having to use multiple numbers for compartmentalization or having to change it regulary. If you buy used goods from listings on craiglist or facebook its a great idea to meet them in public and not give them identifying information like adress, phone number, name, plate numberetc especially since they dont need it to sell you a coffee table. Still havingmultiples voip numbers lets you know where it leaked from. So you can isolate an eventual leak and change only that number
I get tired of all these protection schemes that protects home titles, credit monitoring and so on. It ends up costing a lot of money that I shouldn't have to spend. What needs to be done is corral all these companies that invade privacy with hefty penalties for privacy violations.
Thanks Mr Braxman for the advice, products and services 👍 A new thing I’ve noticed. Yt is advertising to ME, something that someone in my contacts list may like. I guess they are try to recruit me as a free salesman.
YT is turning beyond sewage waste. For the last day, it's recommending EVERY video I've already watched in the last 48hrs. They even show as watched in my history. The web has been destroyed by these tech corps. I want the pre-fb web back 😔
Can I use VoIP for 2FA? Using VoIP numbers with 2FA Users may encounter difficulties when attempting to use VoIP numbers for 2FA, as not all services or systems accept them as valid authentication sources.Dec 5, 2023
Just a question - how anonymously to pay? any payment already has payees identification name, home adres and phone number bank account details and all. Tell us how to purchase something without identifying myself ?
i dont give out my cell #, just my voip. someone with the same # in a different area code gives out my # to the dnc & i get calls & texts for donations
I was getting emails from the DNC asking for donations. But they thought I was a woman named Margaret. I started getting emails from other companies and eventually received an email that included Margaret's address. She lives in England! So the DNC was asking people in England for donations, which I think is illegal. Then I got an email from a collection agency. I had to explain the whole story and what do you know - that ended the emails to Margaret from everyone. I have two other email accounts. I gave them the same bizarre nonsensical name hoping to avoid the auto-name generating algorhythms used for spamming. Turns out someone else conjured up the same email name only on a different email service. And then one day I received an email from a school counselor addressed to all three accounts. This email was intended for the parents of a very troubled youth, and it discussed his whole history at the school and details of his problems and everything. So the idiot counselor apparently remembered the bizarre email name but not which domain, so she sent it to all three. I went to the school website and got the email address of every staff member I could find including the principal. And then I replied to all of them and to the parents and said thank you for the private information about the boy and asked for more details as his case continued. I also reprimanded the parents for getting a divorce and blamed the boy's problems on them. I never heard back but I bet it didn't turn out so well for the counselor.
Valid numbers can be obtained by brute force- calling/texting all possible numbers. I would assume that is probably the reason you are getting calls rather than someone from another area code, but your hypothesis is still possible instead. However, if you register your number with the do not call list that should protect you from getting US-based spam. Only international spammers would then do it, because any in the US (or even closely linked with the US) will be breaking the law and can be tracked down by law enforcement. Or, considering that they are presumably a legit organization that respects people, you can just call them and tell them they have the wrong person and you don't want their messages.
@mshojat the benefit of a VoIP number is their number blocks are typically scarcely populated and if their aren't any public records of that number series tied to any identities, spammers aren't going to waste time on blocks that are super unlikely to get calls answered from. when you activate a number, always make sure it's blank on fast people search.
This sounds very intriguing. However, I'm not understanding how this helps? Everywhere online (seems too) wants a sim number for 2FA. How does this help?
That is a good point to raise. The answer would be to use a VOIP number for all normal voice/SMS use and then get a new regular number for 2FA. (in case you're not aware, VOIP/MMS/etc. through the 2nd number will still go through your regular data plan (or wi-fi if available))
@@robbraxmantech I think I need a new phone number and a new authenticating number but not exactly sure how to proceed without getting on another list, despite having watched many of your vids now. Do you have exact wtitten directions of how to proceed and in what order with dos and don't's as I don't want to mess it up and have to start over? Ty!
What message data, if any, is recorded by this system and for how long do you store it? Do you store message content? Is there more than just time, date, sender, forwarding number?
Your content is great! A little bit polishing on videos would be great. For example, having all those names, brands, etc displayed explicitly in video would make a good difference. Anyway, thanks and keep doing what you’re doing.
@@robbraxmantech Rob, btw thanks for cheaper safer voip wow, so many need this! but do you know of current options to park a few numbers for 1 year so that they dont get used? Fast reusing of phone numbers by phone cies introduces security risks. I dont like to receive text and calls adressed to the previous user of.that number. Im Essentially looking for a 0 min and 0 texts/year voip provider.
Question on Google Voice: I've had GV, with the same number, since the mid-2000's. When I got my first, only and current cell phone #, the same one that I've always had, with the same service provider (Qlink), since 2013. Also, when I got my Cell # & service, I immediately setup my GV # to forward text and voice to my cell, ever since. Then, sometime around 2018, Google took away the text forwarding feature to my cell and I don't understand why? I believe my voice forwarding still works, but I only cared/used the text. Can U please explain what happened? Why did they do this? Paul M. Atlanta, GA
Are you not able to set it up again? Is the option just missing? Maybe Google disabled that feature for many people and not just you? assuming that you could just set up the forwarding again it might have been disabled from some sort of bug or something, but I'm guessing that you can't re-enable it. Have you contacted Google support or the Google forums? Doesn't seem like a question that Braxman or anyone else could answer; something you should look up and/or ask about yourself with Google.
Definitely will want to get one or two (maybe more) Canadian phone numbers from you, Rob! Looking forward to receiving our 2 new Brax3 phones in the new year! Having these phones preconfigured with a VoIP client would perhaps be useful!
Another great solution Bob. You know the bigger you get and the more services you provide might start to attract attention. That would be a problem as they could target all your servers in real time, storing all the information coming through them. As your not setting up to protect future 'Snowdens', I suspect nobody will trouble you. Just as well. 🙂
Oh come on, Google Chrome on your PC!? Replace quickly that with Firefox, or at least Brave! Jokes aside, I really like your channel and your privacy guides. This VoIP solution is great, I might consider it to use for registrations and accounts.
@@Michael_Lak I mean, sure, you can play it that way, but Chrome still heavily fingerprints you and tracks you using your IP, cookies, and a bunch of other things you can't block (on Chrome at least). So attempting to feed it with fake informations would quickly be undermined by all the built-in tracking tools which would reveal your real identity (unless you're using a VPN just for that browser and run it exclusively in a VM, but I don't even know if it's enough)
You will find that they can supply information to authorities via cameras and such. And these are short term solutions. Then the SIM card has to be provisioned through the website of the carriers so you're back at square one.
@robbraxmantech it's simple, just wait a few months then activate on public wifi. but it depends on what you're trying to guard...actual criminal activity? ^that tip^ no doubt, but 2fa? it doesn't matter one bit
I had to call emergency services a few times last year....a strange bar comes up on the phone saying that it's been unblocked for 2 hours. Are they listening also? What's going on here? I'm sure other's have seen it also.
3:19 That's where the Pine Phone would good as a secondary device. Pine Phone combined with a pre-paid service like Mint Mobile could be a solution. Granted, it does dip into the expensive argument ($200 phone + $180 1-year service Mint Mobile). No, it doesn't have Android apps, but if you're looking to have a private secondary number should you really be playing with apps on the device in the first place?
Is there a web interface like webmail in case I dont want to do the SIP thing or forward to my real phone? Will you warn your customer before complying with a subpoena? Whats the go with the area code? Will it be my area code or yours? Or random?
There is no need for any interface. You just go on brax.me and forward. Then you can avoid the SIP "thing". You can still put a SIP app on your device but it is optional
Depending which section/department of the government is attempting to gain access to those records there is a semi decent chance he would be legally barred from telling you about it
The best privacy sollution right now is simply sending letters (you can put fake sender data). It can't be checked without a warrant and so on. Or even better - pigeon mail :D
@@Portia620I used to trap strayed pigeons at the time ago being around 8yrs. Word got out originally ID tags sorted them out-of-town and across different geographical locations. Made some thanks & money and got to learn a decoder language. I had available many variations of that species.....
Don't these services end up getting banned for verification by the big players? Like you could never use a Google phone number to sign up for Twitter, as I recall.
@@robbraxmantech It just seems if it becomes popular, they'll find a way to classify those numbers as belonging to your service, and they'll block 'em.
Watching the recent Georgia trial, the defense was able to know where the DA was at any moment by getting his phone records. Is there a way to have a phone with mobile internet access yet not be location tracked?
Maybe there's a phone company that doesn't keep records? Or does the cell towers, or whoever owns them, keep the records also so the phone providers are not the only ones we have to worry about?
You just keep your phone on connected to the network but internet disabled and walk around. Your phone already generates an incredible amount of signalling communication Some of it is kept for a while for legal reasons and some of it may be kept for a shorter period technical reasons. Towers keep measuring your location and signal strength all the time. Your phone does the same and sends its measurements to the towers. They pass this information to a higher level component that decides about the most effective way to provide you the service. Can be thousands of entries daily for an unused phone in your bag. Now turn on internet. Two dozen apps start communicating instantly. That generate even more signalling reaching more network elements. If you have a turned on phone thsn your location is tracked better than KGB could have dreamed of and there is very little you can do about it. Forward your encrypted text messages from your phone at home via lorawan to a device that has no other wireless technology in it and stay within range. That will be really hard to track but really limiting to you. AFAIK no such device ready for end user is available on the market.
I'm assuming you have a service provider for this? What happens if they decide to change their rules or stop altogether? And what happens if you are struck by lightning tomorrow? Who keeps the company and services going?
Great Idea! Thank you. Also, I tried to tell someone on RUclips comments somewhere else, about a de-googled phone and youtube kept erasing it, and the person who asked what a de-googled phone was said she got deleted too. After awhile we figured out a way.
At least personally I find that RUclips deletes comments (presumably anti-spam) in a seemingly random manner. I've never noticed specific topics that it blocks. I can re-post pretty much the same content as the deleted post again and it will go through. I think it's more related to whether or not a user has anti-fingerprinting anti-scripting, and other privacy features in their browser. If Google/YT find it to be a hard to verify account it will seemingly randomly delete comments several seconds after they are posted. At least that is my experience and my hypothesized theory.
What if you are a victim of a sim switch? Once the carrier gives someone else control of your phone number would the thief get your forwarded phone calls?
What monitoring do you consider cell phones to be susceptible to? You're not really comparing "like for like" because a cellphone is both a voice and data device so can therefore be monitored both ways. A cellphone can use cellular, wifi or bluetooth as transmission media. A land line is a transmission media (not a device) and almost always used for voice calls only (with the exception of modems and fax which are much less common today than they were 20 years or so ago). In other words, I don't understand your original question.
@aktyllus1320 Cell phones have mics that cannot be turned off. People 35 years and younger have never had a private conversation in their lives because of this. There are those of us who dont use cell phones for anything other than making phone calls and would be perfectly fine without internet/data service on the phones. In fact, I only use my cell phone maybe 5-10 minutes per month and only for making calls. I suppose if you are addicted to the cell phone and the plantation services they offer then my question doesnt make sense. Land Lines dont have the electronic surveillances built into them like the spy devices people carry around with them everywhere. Understand? - I can tell the road ahead of you is going to be brutal. Good Luck on your journey into reality.
Glad I decided to wait before buying a plan from sudo. I like the idea of a voip number to throw at 2fa or to sign up for online account but didn’t want to pay what they were asking. Something I’ll def look into in a few more weeks
Rob, I tried using the magic jack VOIP service for 2 party authentication. I received an automated response saying that they do not accept VOIP phone numbers for 2 party authentication at this time. I don't know if that was related to how magic jack is set up or if that would apply to your VOIP set up as well. Could you please speak to this, as it is a real life occurrence. Additionally, if that would happen, would you refund the service fee and disconnect the number? Thanks!
When I am out of the country, I don't have service on Mint and I usually get a local SIM. Would your VOIP forward to a Google Voice account even outside the US so I can still get 2FA?
Rob, will your idea prevent those scammers from using my phone number? I get calls saying that they are from a bank where I have an account. Then I call my bank first before these "scammers". I don't want scammers to use my phone numbers to fool me. Please advise.
Hey rob, I have a question!👋🏻 I’m getting a Pixel and looking to de- Google it, should I do that immediately after I set it up? And would it also defeat the purpose of degoogling something if google is on it from the start until I de-google it?
My googlevoice # got flagged as spam. Now I can't use gv for outgoing calls unless I register my # with something called 'Free Call Registry, which sounds like a privacy hunter-killer drone. Why would my # get flagged? The only reasons I can think of is I'm very randomly unlucky and somebot randomly uses my # for spoofiing. Or because there is no name attached to my googlevoice # in any caller id database. Is this an anti-privacy attack on googlevoice?
Interested- this could bee something I've been looking for. I need 2 listen thru a few times 2 c if i can understand what it is / how it works... etc ... Yu said we can ask questions thru your RUMBLE live session.
I'm interested, but isn't it the case that I can have this sort of solution but still be totally visible to Zucking Big Tech because all of the people around me - friends, family, clients - all have my number and associated details? This seems to solve the 2FA issue, but doesn't make you invisible (I know you cannot be "invisible", but let's call it "opaque")?
Browsing RUclips and watching other videos about DIY cloud servers and VPNs, it seems to me that to have total control of one's own privacy would literally have to be "privacy in a box"! A personal server (probably at home) that may or may not be your home network backbone, but also part use for IoT home security, decentralized VPN tunnelling, as well as personal domain email and cloud storage, and maybe web2.0 (correct usage?) of Google/ Microsoft/ Apple account "all-in-one applications" used through the server instead of immediate phone device.... And of course, a personal server would also serve as a personal PBX.... ^All of this, I'm spitballin and brainstormin... I'm a normie and not a tech-head; so I would have no idea how to start off such a project. And after all this, one would probably hope that the physical personal server/ storage device is safely secured in their household or somewhere and not found out by those snooping online or those snooping physically nearby for wifi signals.
I'm interested in this just for the 2FA use. However, I live in Australia, any plans to offer Australian numbers? I also don't have a SMART phone. I use a LightPhone II, so I'm guessing I couldn't use it on this as I can't download apps, although my computer runs Linux.
I haven't looked into it super closely but I'm pretty sure we have verry strict KYC laws if you want to become a mobile provider here in Australia. Also on a slightly unrelated note our ISPs are legally obligated to log and timestamp IP addresses we visit and keep the data for at least two years. (Telstra out Biggest ISP holds on to this data for a fair bit longer then the minimums btw) Our ISPs also love to track and sometimes throttle the websites we visit using their default DNSs
In his video, Mr. Braxman said ,"A Google," and because he said that it activated my voice recognition on my phone. Very odd considering I don't have an accent like him at all. If that's the case and you can automatically initiate someone else's voice recognition , you can further activate other items in their phone that's scary.
I have one company that forced voice recognition on me, and I hate it because that and other biometric id are bound not to be safe. You give it out, it's gone, and you can't change it. One and done. So when it gets exploited, it will be useless unless they use DNA, which is Black Mirror to the max.
Yeah this has been a thing for many years now, ever since voice-activated assistants existed. From what I've heard it's even been used in the past in online games to kick people off of the server by saying something like "hey Xbox, shut down now". Although I'm surprised it occurred to you now because I heard that many years ago it was patched to not happen for internet videos, due to some sort of detection mechanism (I'm not sure if it's RUclips that plays some inaudible sound in the background during videos, or it listens on a frequency that would normally be cut off, or just has better detection or something). Maybe your phone is really old and hasn't received any updates for that?
Your Voip company, is it based anywhere UN friendly? Also, if the number can be changed, then what happens when somebody you gave the number to doesn't have the new number? Do you have to tell everyone your new number every time? Also, if this is just for 2FA, out of everyone who will have access to the forwarded number, it will be you. What security to do you have to protect that information?
Hello I just wanted to thank u for all the work u have done to keep privacy a priority. My phone has been running background services and I'm getting too many phishing texts and weird calls from mostly the US n sometimes other countries. Can you help me out in advising me how to prevent this privacy issue.
question: if i am using the two phone approach and my secondary de-googled phone has no sim, is there a privacy threat if i operate the degoogled phone using my eyephone hotspot?
I still think best solutions would be pay for number say $1.99 a month then pay per text or per min. That way you could have multiple numbers for each social media account. Money starts to add up the more numbers you want to create @ even $5. Still needs to be a way to own the number cheaply but pay per usage cause it will be rare that you receive even enough texts to care.
I think it would be crazy and almost entirely pointless to have multiple 2FA numbers. You only need one, and you don't really get anything for having multiple.
I tried to use your email and could never get it set up correctly in Thunderbird. Then I tried to get help and got no response on brax me. I guess I'm too stupid for you and therefore you don't want a "normie" which I'm not, to compromise your system. Great solution. Will this be any different?
We have had webmail for a while. There is no setup with webmail. Thunderbird is hard to understand for many so the webmail solves that. 100% of Thunderbird issues are related to not reading the instructions but understandably, there are a lot of steps. Webmail is very straightforward. Everyone has been loving it
@@robbraxmantech Well good for them and good for you. Are you really going to pull the "didn't read the instructions" on me like some kind of Netflix help desk? You are not being serious sir. But thanks for responding. At least I know where you stand.
so after payments it free phone with just over 8 hours each day the of the year (12 months) ? the bit I don't like and not just what being offer by Rob, looks like good product? IP phone in general they where meant break monopoly the phone company had, all you needed IP address and something connect to that IP address with, anything could handle sound making and reiving, but lot downing not making that happen, house phone companies switching services over IP phone service from the copper lines used before, but mobility just not build in to it? and in most cases it a must worse service too, any power it down, your router net goes down? no phones? and only software at there end just forget there meant to be forwarding call to you, is an option to them?
I'm looking for a video where Rob talks about his de-googled phone being tracked via a web-worker. In the video he does a step-by-step to disable it. Does anyone know the name of the video ? Thanks
10:46 - Having watched quite a few Rob's videos, I started to appreciate the amount of knowledge and level of carefulness required to keep privacy intact. For example, when Rob says "as long as the email does not have identity info and IP address," he really means a separate email address and VPN, if I am not missing anything.
I also liked that gentle nod to Mint Mobile LOL
No endorsement! LOL. It's just funny because I see it so often
and any leaks and it all over, you might as just write out all your details to post it to them? there that big and collect data about you form all over the place? just bit of information , sometime actually just one bit '0101' connected to something there already now about you and snowballs from there, one to the next link and so on so on, and if the ball information out the web get that big? you will never be 100% sure us got it all, and it just a small bit that was missed that ball of information regrow from just small bit? just an area phone number, zip code will not take much and your back square one ?
thank you
@@robbraxmantech any recommendation on a “degoogled” streaming device? I have a NAS running Jellyfin on my LAN with all of my music,movies, and TV shows uploaded to it. However, I’m
looking for a streaming device that doesn’t require me to sign into a apple/google account In order to download apps. Really the only app I need to download is Jellyfin(but without apple or foogle sticking their nose into my business). This is possible on my degoogled phone because I have f-droid. But it would be nice to have a streaming device similar to a Apple TV/ Chromecast that is capable of this so I can stream my music and videos from my NAS locally/remotely onto a TV. Looking forward to your input. Thanks for your time and everything you do!
Offshore SIP
I want my alphanumeric pager service back again.
Me too, also want pay phones back so we can call without being eavesdropped on & tracked like we are prisoners.
I think they still exist. Doctors still use them.
@invisableobserver we are prisoners OF a prison without walls consisting of choice architecture.
@SirenaSpades you're right, they do. Docs, RT, radiologists, lots of ppl use them at the hospital. The docs I know use pager direct. Said it's like 200 a year.
@@SirenaSpades
Pay phones? 😊
Thank you Rob for sharing your time and knowledge on the greatest threat Americans face today. Good luck to You, your next solution, and Live happy .
I've been down that same search road. This is a very welcome solution. Count me in!!! And thank you.
Thank You, Bob, for your tireless work in this space.
I speak to my friends politely & earnestly about privacy--which my late father valued highly--but, I can see the uncomprehending look in their eyes. Thank you for being a voice in the wilderness. I look forward to being a customer this year.
it’s Rob, not Bob
You are awesome Rob! What an excellent idea and service.
Bravo! happy for your business and growth in this underserved market. This is like another main sail to help the privacy conscious navigate the world of big tech. Thank you
This is incredible if it will be as good as it sounds. Stroke of genius Rob!
rob, just wanted to thank you for your ongoing efforts. been subscribed & watching since the piano/mask days and always appreciate the info and dedication. just wish i had the money back then to buy some of your home security stuff :)
This is an excellent idea. This prompts two privacy questions for the future: 1) How do you talk to someone over a telephone knowing it is not ( never) possible for them ( anyone) to know the number you are using? 2) How can you purchase something ( legal) online and never reveal your identity (real)? Legal and confidential Shipping receive addresses are common but what about the instrument you use to pay for the product or service? 95% of Prepaid credit cards do not work.
I’ve thought of this as well, how to anonymize online payments.
1) In the part of Europe that I am in, you can dial a prefix number before the number you are calling which will hide your Calling Line Identity from the person you are calling. Indian call centres inject false CLIDs to the suckers that they call in case they block calls where there is no CLID, or to make it look like someone is calling from a specific town or city, and not Mumbai.
2) What you're asking for is a system that guarantees (or "trusts") the transaction without revealing the identity of the transactor. That sounds very much like the concept of the Blockchain from where I am sitting.
@terrydaktyllus1320 we have that in the US. just add *67 before the phone number.
MySudo. They will know the number, but it is no problem for them to know the number. You can regenerate them endlessly.
You sound pretty suspicious.
The latest excuse they use: we're hacking Tony to keep other hackers away from him. Bullshit. They're harassing the hell out of me online using search results and other ways.
Same here, there fucking annoying But I got my media taken care of now.
True indeed! In fact they are actually who want take control.
It's sucks when somebody "religious" condemn your daughter for not covering her hair but in fact he masturbates by watching someone's wife photos. Show off piousness only.
First steps are the hardest. Getting from zero to a starting point where it begins to make sense to invest in infrastructure.
I've been considering this for a while.
As this phone would be turned off 90% of the time, voicemail would be a big factor in me choosing it.
In it's standard use, there is no phone. It's forwarded
Not gonna work for 2FA because most services do a lookup with Number Portability Administration Center (NPAC) and can recognize voip vs. cell phone and won't send 2FA to a VoIP line. 😢
This has been my experience...
Unlesd the voip spoofs your actual phone mumber. I caught domeone using whatsapp to reroute my verification codes. Same exact digits.
Yes and no. It's true that some services might detect a VOIP number and deny it, _but_ if you use your real number for 2FA and VOIP for everything else it will still work.
This kind of makes sense to do anyway because all your normal conversations -voice and SMS- will be encrypted (assuming it gets routed through a VPN). Only 2FA won't be encrypted, but that will pretty much never be an issue.
The only _theoretical_ downside is that when doing it this way is that the 2FA will still be vulnerable to SIM swap attack (assuming that you can't just set protections with your provider to make such attacks not viable) *_if_** somehow someone got a hold of the 2FA number.* _however_ considering that the number is only used for 2FA, nobody should have that number as being linked to you (it will only get brute forced SMS spams but not know any info about the owner of the number). So it's rather irrelevant that I even brought this up.
Yes, this is what I was thinking. And one of my banks here in Canada is so stupid, they force you to use the same number for your voice contact that is used for SMS 2FA. You are also forced to use SMS 2FA with no other options. 🤦
@@MsHojat The only real defense to SIM swap is for no one to know the number. Using your real number for 2FA only is not a bad idea but if you were previously using it for everything it's too late. The damage has been done. It's already out there all over the place. You would need to get a new number.
The "solution" is simple... phone numbers aren't private, and never have been. The problem is people using them as a form of ID, and a means of authentication. NOTHING about a phone number is private, _or secure!_ There have been way too many cases of people having things stolen because they lost control of a phone number.
they *are* private (publically speaking) if you segregate with 2, 1 for personal contacts & 1 for business.
and for 2FA protection, use an MVNO and don't tell anyone, cuz carrier lookup sites don't list MVNO's.
@@parodylover999mvno?
What is your point? I can’t stand asinine comments like yours it’s like oh there is no privacy and never was. That’s not true there was more privacy and now there is less privacy. There are no absolutes.
@@atlfun08 I didn't say there is no privacy. I said PHONE NUMBERS are not private. You can pretend they are by not telling anyone your number, but the instant you use it for a call, they'll have the number. You can pay the phone company to keep your number _unlisted,_ and they won't put it in the phone book.
What bugs me is why banks, brokerage houses, and such will not adopt 2FA using a separate email address. I have a 2nd email address set up to be used only for 2FA. But yet these businesses will not consider using email addresses, only a phone number for 2FA. Each time I bring this up with them, I get blown off with we don't do that. Just blows my mind.
Wow!
they only want you using their phone app.
I stopped banking with an entity like that.
Dunno how long I’ll be able to hold out but I’m the only person I know whose actual acct hasn’t been breached. Only my debit card has been compromised but that’s easily swapped out.
Even better if they allowed auth apps. But these systems would have to undergo so much testing for any authentication change that it would be very expensive. I suspect they have run the numbers and concluded that the actual amount of SIM swapping does not justify the expense.
Thanks very much. I hope that this will be available for mankind in South African soon. Many blessings, success and miracles to you.
Thank you for your salutation. I may be using it in the future. Many blessings, success and miracles to you in Jesus' name.
Appreciate you Rob! Love the videos friend! Keep em coming! ❤
I solved it a long time ago by getting rid of my phone so I would not need a number. By the way, 2FA is a violation to the American Disabilities Act because many disabled people do not own cell phones or email, and all U.S. companies & organizations must be ADA compliant. Next time you get prompted for 2FA, call the company & tell them they are in violation of the ADA and you cannot do 2FA.
I've been thinking about this for some time myself.
And since the Govt. pays you for not to work if you are disabled, it's not difficult to obtain disability certificates.
Good luck CALLING a company these days ... most put you through auto attendant hell, connect you to people who speak English as a 3rd language or (in the case of most tech companies like Google) don't even have a way to call them.
Automated phone systems are also a violation to the ADA. Even if we can get through they lie & do nothing about it, it's stressful, we need more people to keep making them aware that companies are not in complaince.@@Toby1952
Just because some disabled people don't have mobiles doesn't mean that it would be a violation of the disabilities act. Short of someone who is completely paralyzed, SMS is accessible to everyone. So I don't really buy your argument.
I would agree that it _should_ be illegal to require though. I suspect that if that is somehow the case or a law would be made for that it would only only apply to required services such as banks, and hence still keep most people locked out from stuff like Steam or Discord.
I tried contacting Discord about not having an SMS phone number and they essentially said "tough luck, we don't want you then". Steam would probably say the same thing (granted this is just for verification for ladder and/or SteamGuard or such, not required for basic Steam use).
I know a genius when I'm listening to you ❤
I NEVER answer calls from strangers,let it go to Voicemail,and BLOCK all Scamers problem solved 😊
Good for you. If you're job hunting? You can't do that. It sucks.
If you really believe that, you don't understand what Rob is saying...
@@2rx_bni if someone is calling you about a job , they will leave a voicemail , then you call them back ....
Nice! I’m so sick of companies ask for my number…
Me too. I’ve stopped all “rewards” store programs. I’m not giving out my phone number every time I need to buy something. My money is all I need!!
My Vet used my phone number as the account number for my pets.
tell your vet they are breaking the PII laws and need to change their practice of using customers' personal information as account numbers.
Make sure they care more for your pets than they do of your security/privacy..
Why can't there be a solution to spam calls. I've had Medicare calls not medicare. I've been told I need to call because they are trying to serve papers...nonsense. Servers don't serve papers that way here. I was told there was a problem with my Apple device...yep, real problem. I have never owned an Apple product.
Even better possible solution. Allow users to use your API to send someone a text with a number that when called by that number will connect to the user. If both are users, it could give 2 separate numbers to each user and hide the real ones from each other.
Build it!
I don't understand what you're suggesting. Doesn't make any sense from what I can tell.
its does make sense. That would solve having to use multiple numbers for compartmentalization or having to change it regulary. If you buy used goods from listings on craiglist or facebook its a great idea to meet them in public and not give them identifying information like adress, phone number, name, plate numberetc especially since they dont need it to sell you a coffee table.
Still havingmultiples voip numbers lets you know where it leaked from. So you can isolate an eventual leak and change only that number
Most apps that txt verify need to be Sim and not VoIP.
Especially 2FA texts will often not work with VoIP numbers. Since 2FA is suggested as the main use case, how will this be solved?
@@jpny4750 there are a handful of Sim services available.
@@jpny4750 only Sim services.
He said its acting as a landline at 12:15
@@gatorstupor your stretching here. Its VoIP still.
You're a living legend Brax.
Wonderful. I will most likely be trying this out. Sounds useful.
I get tired of all these protection schemes that protects home titles, credit monitoring and so on. It ends up costing a lot of money that I shouldn't have to spend. What needs to be done is corral all these companies that invade privacy with hefty penalties for privacy violations.
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thank you for thinking about canada
Thanks Mr Braxman for the advice, products and services 👍
A new thing I’ve noticed. Yt is advertising to ME, something that someone in my contacts list may like. I guess they are try to recruit me as a free salesman.
Then block the ads.
@@terrydaktyllus1320 Do you know of a good blocker? Thanks.
@@terrydaktyllus1320 Also I once heard that there are other apps that can be used to access yt. Do you know of these?
@@terrydaktyllus1320 Two replies gone, this is the 3rd.
YT is turning beyond sewage waste. For the last day, it's recommending EVERY video I've already watched in the last 48hrs. They even show as watched in my history. The web has been destroyed by these tech corps. I want the pre-fb web back 😔
Can I use VoIP for 2FA?
Using VoIP numbers with 2FA
Users may encounter difficulties when attempting to use VoIP numbers for 2FA, as not all services or systems accept them as valid authentication sources.Dec 5, 2023
Have you looked at Cloaked? What are your thoughts?
This sounds like a great service going forward Rob. But what about the dozens of accounts we have already opened with our personal number?
It's ok to change to a new number. I do talk about that in the next video.
You are "zucking" great Rob!😂❤
zuck yeah!
@@robbraxmantech 🤣🤣🇯🇲
Just a question - how anonymously to pay? any payment already has payees identification name, home adres and phone number bank account details and all. Tell us how to purchase something without identifying myself ?
We accept alternate payment methods.
well duh, with a prepaid visa in just about every grocery store. if you're not a criminal, that's enough anonymity.
i dont give out my cell #, just my voip. someone with the same # in a different area code gives out my # to the dnc & i get calls & texts for donations
I was getting emails from the DNC asking for donations. But they thought I was a woman named Margaret. I started getting emails from other companies and eventually received an email that included Margaret's address. She lives in England! So the DNC was asking people in England for donations, which I think is illegal. Then I got an email from a collection agency. I had to explain the whole story and what do you know - that ended the emails to Margaret from everyone. I have two other email accounts. I gave them the same bizarre nonsensical name hoping to avoid the auto-name generating algorhythms used for spamming. Turns out someone else conjured up the same email name only on a different email service. And then one day I received an email from a school counselor addressed to all three accounts. This email was intended for the parents of a very troubled youth, and it discussed his whole history at the school and details of his problems and everything. So the idiot counselor apparently remembered the bizarre email name but not which domain, so she sent it to all three. I went to the school website and got the email address of every staff member I could find including the principal. And then I replied to all of them and to the parents and said thank you for the private information about the boy and asked for more details as his case continued. I also reprimanded the parents for getting a divorce and blamed the boy's problems on them. I never heard back but I bet it didn't turn out so well for the counselor.
Valid numbers can be obtained by brute force- calling/texting all possible numbers. I would assume that is probably the reason you are getting calls rather than someone from another area code, but your hypothesis is still possible instead.
However, if you register your number with the do not call list that should protect you from getting US-based spam. Only international spammers would then do it, because any in the US (or even closely linked with the US) will be breaking the law and can be tracked down by law enforcement.
Or, considering that they are presumably a legit organization that respects people, you can just call them and tell them they have the wrong person and you don't want their messages.
@mshojat
the benefit of a VoIP number is their number blocks are typically scarcely populated and if their aren't any public records of that number series tied to any identities, spammers aren't going to waste time on blocks that are super unlikely to get calls answered from.
when you activate a number, always make sure it's blank on fast people search.
This sounds very intriguing. However, I'm not understanding how this helps?
Everywhere online (seems too) wants a sim number for 2FA. How does this help?
That is a good point to raise. The answer would be to use a VOIP number for all normal voice/SMS use and then get a new regular number for 2FA.
(in case you're not aware, VOIP/MMS/etc. through the 2nd number will still go through your regular data plan (or wi-fi if available))
What about abnormal people?
What are your concerns with US Mobile?
Also, will this new service require us to buy a new phone?
There is no phone or app required as the video says since most uses is with forwarding
@@robbraxmantech I think I need a new phone number and a new authenticating number but not exactly sure how to proceed without getting on another list, despite having watched many of your vids now.
Do you have exact wtitten directions of how to proceed and in what order with dos and don't's as I don't want to mess it up and have to start over?
Ty!
Most US banks do not send 2FA to VOIP numbers. How do you get around that or do you?
so *67 & *82 dont work on cell? they block my cell #
What message data, if any, is recorded by this system and for how long do you store it?
Do you store message content?
Is there more than just time, date, sender, forwarding number?
Your content is great! A little bit polishing on videos would be great. For example, having all those names, brands, etc displayed explicitly in video would make a good difference.
Anyway, thanks and keep doing what you’re doing.
Can we port an existing number over to your VOIP? (Mainly to just park it during inactive periods.) And do you charge to port numbers in AND out?
Porting is a manual process and we're not set up with staff for that yet. Can we do it? Yes. Do we want to do it? Maybe later.
@@robbraxmantech Rob, btw thanks for cheaper safer voip wow, so many need this!
but do you know of current options to park a few numbers for 1 year so that they dont get used? Fast reusing of phone numbers by phone cies introduces security risks. I dont like to receive text and calls adressed to the previous user of.that number. Im
Essentially looking for a 0 min and 0 texts/year voip provider.
I am glad you are out here helping us❤
Question on Google Voice: I've had GV, with the same number, since the mid-2000's. When I got my first, only and current cell phone #, the same one that I've always had, with the same service provider (Qlink), since 2013. Also, when I got my Cell # & service, I immediately setup my GV # to forward text and voice to my cell, ever since. Then, sometime around 2018, Google took away the text forwarding feature to my cell and I don't understand why? I believe my voice forwarding still works, but I only cared/used the text.
Can U please explain what happened? Why did they do this?
Paul M.
Atlanta, GA
Google is evil, that's why.
Are you not able to set it up again? Is the option just missing? Maybe Google disabled that feature for many people and not just you? assuming that you could just set up the forwarding again it might have been disabled from some sort of bug or something, but I'm guessing that you can't re-enable it. Have you contacted Google support or the Google forums?
Doesn't seem like a question that Braxman or anyone else could answer; something you should look up and/or ask about yourself with Google.
Definitely will want to get one or two (maybe more) Canadian phone numbers from you, Rob! Looking forward to receiving our 2 new Brax3 phones in the new year! Having these phones preconfigured with a VoIP client would perhaps be useful!
Another great solution Bob. You know the bigger you get and the more services you provide might start to attract attention.
That would be a problem as they could target all your servers in real time, storing all the information coming through them.
As your not setting up to protect future 'Snowdens', I suspect nobody will trouble you. Just as well. 🙂
So, should we start calling you Pa Bell?
Seriously, I think you have a winning solution.
Oh come on, Google Chrome on your PC!? Replace quickly that with Firefox, or at least Brave!
Jokes aside, I really like your channel and your privacy guides. This VoIP solution is great, I might consider it to use for registrations and accounts.
The jokes on you. One uses Chrome to give google information or disinformation you want them to know.
@@Michael_Lak I mean, sure, you can play it that way, but Chrome still heavily fingerprints you and tracks you using your IP, cookies, and a bunch of other things you can't block (on Chrome at least). So attempting to feed it with fake informations would quickly be undermined by all the built-in tracking tools which would reveal your real identity (unless you're using a VPN just for that browser and run it exclusively in a VM, but I don't even know if it's enough)
You can easily buy sim cards and burner phones at stores like CVS and Walgreen's for cash, without having to do any form of KYC though.
You will find that they can supply information to authorities via cameras and such. And these are short term solutions. Then the SIM card has to be provisioned through the website of the carriers so you're back at square one.
@@robbraxmantech You can often buy refill cards at the store for cash as well, so no need to pay online
In the US, we have 1 sim slot. For 2FA, we need more than 1 number
@robbraxmantech
it's simple, just wait a few months then activate on public wifi.
but it depends on what you're trying to guard...actual criminal activity? ^that tip^ no doubt, but 2fa? it doesn't matter one bit
It’s a shame this isn’t available in the UK!
I'm holding out hope with the Librem phones. They've got the idea of privacy and non-tracking but they're not quite there yet.
Awesome news! ❤
I had to call emergency services a few times last year....a strange bar comes up on the phone saying that it's been unblocked for 2 hours. Are they listening also? What's going on here? I'm sure other's have seen it also.
i use ta phone number that has been active for the past 50 years. its a local bank answering machine that gives time and temperature.
How is that used for 2FA?
@robbraxmantech sorry, not for 2FA. for when i create an account when ordering something, and it requires a number. no spam calls.
@@drkrypton4410 I am guessing in USA/Can you can also use any 555- number if you aren't intending to receive calls. I also like 555-1212.
3:19 That's where the Pine Phone would good as a secondary device. Pine Phone combined with a pre-paid service like Mint Mobile could be a solution. Granted, it does dip into the expensive argument ($200 phone + $180 1-year service Mint Mobile). No, it doesn't have Android apps, but if you're looking to have a private secondary number should you really be playing with apps on the device in the first place?
screw mint's 180, redpocket is 30 for a year
Is there a web interface like webmail in case I dont want to do the SIP thing or forward to my real phone?
Will you warn your customer before complying with a subpoena?
Whats the go with the area code? Will it be my area code or yours? Or random?
There is no need for any interface. You just go on brax.me and forward. Then you can avoid the SIP "thing". You can still put a SIP app on your device but it is optional
Depending which section/department of the government is attempting to gain access to those records there is a semi decent chance he would be legally barred from telling you about it
The best privacy sollution right now is simply sending letters (you can put fake sender data). It can't be checked without a warrant and so on. Or even better - pigeon mail :D
Bird mail! Truths I knew of a pigeon once interesting and always wondered about carriers.
@@Portia620I used to trap strayed pigeons at the time ago being around 8yrs.
Word got out originally ID tags sorted them out-of-town and across different geographical locations.
Made some thanks & money and got to learn a decoder language.
I had available many variations of that species.....
Don't these services end up getting banned for verification by the big players? Like you could never use a Google phone number to sign up for Twitter, as I recall.
Google Voice is not suitable for 2FA yes. But our phone numbers are regular numbers. You could hook it up as a regular line.
@@robbraxmantech It just seems if it becomes popular, they'll find a way to classify those numbers as belonging to your service, and they'll block 'em.
When will your service be coming to the UK? I would be interested when it does as not many options for us here.
Watching the recent Georgia trial, the defense was able to know where the DA was at any moment by getting his phone records. Is there a way to have a phone with mobile internet access yet not be location tracked?
Maybe there's a phone company that doesn't keep records? Or does the cell towers, or whoever owns them, keep the records also so the phone providers are not the only ones we have to worry about?
make your own phone company and don't track yourself )
easy
@@ТоварищКамрадовСоциалистКоммунeasy? And maybe the cell towers keep the info? I need help from someone knowledge.
You just keep your phone on connected to the network but internet disabled and walk around. Your phone already generates an incredible amount of signalling communication Some of it is kept for a while for legal reasons and some of it may be kept for a shorter period technical reasons. Towers keep measuring your location and signal strength all the time. Your phone does the same and sends its measurements to the towers. They pass this information to a higher level component that decides about the most effective way to provide you the service. Can be thousands of entries daily for an unused phone in your bag. Now turn on internet. Two dozen apps start communicating instantly. That generate even more signalling reaching more network elements. If you have a turned on phone thsn your location is tracked better than KGB could have dreamed of and there is very little you can do about it. Forward your encrypted text messages from your phone at home via lorawan to a device that has no other wireless technology in it and stay within range. That will be really hard to track but really limiting to you. AFAIK no such device ready for end user is available on the market.
@notusedexer
there's hundreds of phone companies, but it doesn't matter which you use since there's only 4 tower networks in america
I'm assuming you have a service provider for this? What happens if they decide to change their rules or stop altogether? And what happens if you are struck by lightning tomorrow? Who keeps the company and services going?
Great Idea! Thank you. Also, I tried to tell someone on RUclips comments somewhere else, about a de-googled phone and youtube kept erasing it, and the person who asked what a de-googled phone was said she got deleted too. After awhile we figured out a way.
They are far more invidious than you think. Happens to me all the time even when I'm virtually using a pidgin. I wonder if you will see this?
At least personally I find that RUclips deletes comments (presumably anti-spam) in a seemingly random manner. I've never noticed specific topics that it blocks. I can re-post pretty much the same content as the deleted post again and it will go through. I think it's more related to whether or not a user has anti-fingerprinting anti-scripting, and other privacy features in their browser. If Google/YT find it to be a hard to verify account it will seemingly randomly delete comments several seconds after they are posted. At least that is my experience and my hypothesized theory.
@@friendlyfire7861 I see it. But what's a pidgin? I wonder if they are even worse on certain channels? Are these actually people doing this deleting?
@@MissBabalu102I think it’s Artificial Idiots that does all the censoring. Same as Faykbooke.
Gotta write in code to share honest info these days.
can i have, use some like this outside from USA, EUROPA?
There’s no privacy. Check who owns the privacy companies. Why would they want us to have privacy? When they made this entire IOT thing open source.
What if you are a victim of a sim switch? Once the carrier gives someone else control of your phone number would the thief get your forwarded phone calls?
Are land lines subject to the same monitoring as cell phones?
Yes
totally different use *67 & *82 to block/ sow #. some places require u 2 show ur #
not voip but reall land lines= from the local phone company-NOT cable companies
What monitoring do you consider cell phones to be susceptible to?
You're not really comparing "like for like" because a cellphone is both a voice and data device so can therefore be monitored both ways. A cellphone can use cellular, wifi or bluetooth as transmission media.
A land line is a transmission media (not a device) and almost always used for voice calls only (with the exception of modems and fax which are much less common today than they were 20 years or so ago).
In other words, I don't understand your original question.
@aktyllus1320 Cell phones have mics that cannot be turned off. People 35 years and younger have never had a private conversation in their lives because of this. There are those of us who dont use cell phones for anything other than making phone calls and would be perfectly fine without internet/data service on the phones. In fact, I only use my cell phone maybe 5-10 minutes per month and only for making calls. I suppose if you are addicted to the cell phone and the plantation services they offer then my question doesnt make sense.
Land Lines dont have the electronic surveillances built into them like the spy devices people carry around with them everywhere. Understand?
- I can tell the road ahead of you is going to be brutal. Good Luck on your journey into reality.
Glad I decided to wait before buying a plan from sudo. I like the idea of a voip number to throw at 2fa or to sign up for online account but didn’t want to pay what they were asking. Something I’ll def look into in a few more weeks
Rob, I tried using the magic jack VOIP service for 2 party authentication. I received an automated response saying that they do not accept VOIP phone numbers for 2 party authentication at this time. I don't know if that was related to how magic jack is set up or if that would apply to your VOIP set up as well. Could you please speak to this, as it is a real life occurrence. Additionally, if that would happen, would you refund the service fee and disconnect the number? Thanks!
The main issue is that Ooma is not SMS equipped on the landline. It has to be seamless
In the uk we have pay as you go SIM cards £10 and I've had it for 3 years now and it's down to about £6 as i send the odd text to keep it active
I have an old Tesco mobile SIM which I can load cash into but I use it as a backup on an old phone / brick
This video is the one I’ve been waiting for…😎
When I am out of the country, I don't have service on Mint and I usually get a local SIM. Would your VOIP forward to a Google Voice account even outside the US so I can still get 2FA?
It can forward to any number. But Google voice is not usually accepted as 2FA. On BraxVOIP, just forward to email. Then you're done.
Don't need BraxVoip to forward to email. What's the point then.
Rob do MVNO phone carrier's protect your privacy better than say
AT&T or Verizon?
Rob, will your idea prevent those scammers from using my phone number? I get calls saying that they are from a bank where I have an account. Then I call my bank first before these "scammers". I don't want scammers to use my phone numbers to fool me. Please advise.
Hey rob, I have a question!👋🏻
I’m getting a Pixel and looking to de- Google it, should I do that immediately after I set it up? And would it also defeat the purpose of degoogling something if google is on it from the start until I de-google it?
My googlevoice # got flagged as spam. Now I can't use gv for outgoing calls unless I register my # with something called 'Free Call Registry, which sounds like a privacy hunter-killer drone.
Why would my # get flagged? The only reasons I can think of is I'm very randomly unlucky and somebot randomly uses my # for spoofiing. Or because there is no name attached to my googlevoice # in any caller id database.
Is this an anti-privacy attack on googlevoice?
Where do you get the sip Bear app to install ? Also do you need to get the VOIP
SOFTPHONE first ,?
So what happens to my private phone if something happens to YOU?
What do I personally have to do with it? I'm not switch your phone lines manually
Yes but you offer this service, if something happens to you then who will carry on your legacy?@@robbraxmantech
Interested- this could bee something I've been looking for.
I need 2 listen thru a few times 2 c if i can understand what it is / how it works... etc ...
Yu said we can ask questions thru your RUMBLE live session.
Yes tomorrow
I'm interested, but isn't it the case that I can have this sort of solution but still be totally visible to Zucking Big Tech because all of the people around me - friends, family, clients - all have my number and associated details? This seems to solve the 2FA issue, but doesn't make you invisible (I know you cannot be "invisible", but let's call it "opaque")?
Is this voip suitable for international use?
14:20 answered. Thank you
Not yet
I'll take one!. Ty!
Please keep us updated on Brax VOIP. I like the idea.
Browsing RUclips and watching other videos about DIY cloud servers and VPNs, it seems to me that to have total control of one's own privacy would literally have to be "privacy in a box"!
A personal server (probably at home) that may or may not be your home network backbone, but also part use for IoT home security, decentralized VPN tunnelling, as well as personal domain email and cloud storage, and maybe web2.0 (correct usage?) of Google/ Microsoft/ Apple account "all-in-one applications" used through the server instead of immediate phone device.... And of course, a personal server would also serve as a personal PBX....
^All of this, I'm spitballin and brainstormin... I'm a normie and not a tech-head; so I would have no idea how to start off such a project.
And after all this, one would probably hope that the physical personal server/ storage device is safely secured in their household or somewhere and not found out by those snooping online or those snooping physically nearby for wifi signals.
I'm interested in this just for the 2FA use. However, I live in Australia, any plans to offer Australian numbers? I also don't have a SMART phone. I use a LightPhone II, so I'm guessing I couldn't use it on this as I can't download apps, although my computer runs Linux.
Not at the moment
I haven't looked into it super closely but I'm pretty sure we have verry strict KYC laws if you want to become a mobile provider here in Australia.
Also on a slightly unrelated note our ISPs are legally obligated to log and timestamp IP addresses we visit and keep the data for at least two years. (Telstra out Biggest ISP holds on to this data for a fair bit longer then the minimums btw)
Our ISPs also love to track and sometimes throttle the websites we visit using their default DNSs
we can use sip to verify chat apps like whats, teleg, ect?....
I would love to switch to a Linux smartphone but crucial for me is a great navigation app. Are there any? Would you do a review please? Most obliged!
In his video, Mr. Braxman said ,"A Google," and because he said that it activated my voice recognition on my phone. Very odd considering I don't have an accent like him at all. If that's the case and you can automatically initiate someone else's voice recognition , you can further activate other items in their phone that's scary.
I have one company that forced voice recognition on me, and I hate it because that and other biometric id are bound not to be safe. You give it out, it's gone, and you can't change it. One and done. So when it gets exploited, it will be useless unless they use DNA, which is Black Mirror to the max.
Yeah this has been a thing for many years now, ever since voice-activated assistants existed. From what I've heard it's even been used in the past in online games to kick people off of the server by saying something like "hey Xbox, shut down now". Although I'm surprised it occurred to you now because I heard that many years ago it was patched to not happen for internet videos, due to some sort of detection mechanism (I'm not sure if it's RUclips that plays some inaudible sound in the background during videos, or it listens on a frequency that would normally be cut off, or just has better detection or something). Maybe your phone is really old and hasn't received any updates for that?
Your Voip company, is it based anywhere UN friendly? Also, if the number can be changed, then what happens when somebody you gave the number to doesn't have the new number? Do you have to tell everyone your new number every time? Also, if this is just for 2FA, out of everyone who will have access to the forwarded number, it will be you. What security to do you have to protect that information?
Hello I just wanted to thank u for all the work u have done to keep privacy a priority. My phone has been running background services and I'm getting too many phishing texts and weird calls from mostly the US n sometimes other countries. Can you help me out in advising me how to prevent this privacy issue.
use the switch that blocks numbers that aren't in contacts, if it's suitable for your lifestyle & career
Is textnow one of those? They use that to call 911 and prank them around here. ( swatting)
question: if i am using the two phone approach and my secondary de-googled phone has no sim, is there a privacy threat if i operate the degoogled phone using my eyephone hotspot?
I still think best solutions would be pay for number say $1.99 a month then pay per text or per min. That way you could have multiple numbers for each social media account. Money starts to add up the more numbers you want to create @ even $5. Still needs to be a way to own the number cheaply but pay per usage cause it will be rare that you receive even enough texts to care.
I think it would be crazy and almost entirely pointless to have multiple 2FA numbers. You only need one, and you don't really get anything for having multiple.
@@MsHojatI did not mention anything about 2FA :)
just get a redpocket sim for $30 annual, no monthly. set it N forget it (remember the due date of course)
NIST recommended to stop using sms based 2FA how many years ago yet that is still what most banks (and many others) still use.
The reason is that they can track your identity. It's not even a good security measure as you say
Thank you for the solution!
I tried to use your email and could never get it set up correctly in Thunderbird. Then I tried to get help and got no response on brax me. I guess I'm too stupid for you and therefore you don't want a "normie" which I'm not, to compromise your system. Great solution. Will this be any different?
We have had webmail for a while. There is no setup with webmail. Thunderbird is hard to understand for many so the webmail solves that. 100% of Thunderbird issues are related to not reading the instructions but understandably, there are a lot of steps. Webmail is very straightforward. Everyone has been loving it
@@robbraxmantech Well good for them and good for you. Are you really going to pull the "didn't read the instructions" on me like some kind of Netflix help desk? You are not being serious sir. But thanks for responding. At least I know where you stand.
If we buy a degoogle phone how do we pay da bill where do we go?
so after payments it free phone with just over 8 hours each day the of the year (12 months) ? the bit I don't like and not just what being offer by Rob, looks like good product? IP phone in general they where meant break monopoly the phone company had, all you needed IP address and something connect to that IP address with, anything could handle sound making and reiving, but lot downing not making that happen, house phone companies switching services over IP phone service from the copper lines used before, but mobility just not build in to it? and in most cases it a must worse service too, any power it down, your router net goes down? no phones? and only software at there end just forget there meant to be forwarding call to you, is an option to them?
I'm looking for a video where Rob talks about his de-googled phone being tracked via a web-worker. In the video he does a step-by-step to disable it. Does anyone know the name of the video ? Thanks
ruclips.net/video/spSdUSgAkKg/видео.html