Thinking about opening my secondary number for public (lemmy.ca)

submitted 3 weeks ago by kionite231@lemmy.ca to c/general@lemmy.world

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Hello folks,

I was wondering if I should open my secondary number for public use, what I mean is that anyone could use my number for temporary SMS to make a burner account or for some privacy reasons. I know that there are tons of services out there which provides a temp SMS however most of those numbers are blocked by all the big tech like G**gle, Micrsft etc, my number is new so it will take some time before they ban it as well.

I have a concern though, what will happen if someone tries to use my number for malicious purposes ( is it even possible that someone could use it in a way that will put me in trouble? ). that mobile number is going expire in 6 months anyway, so I guess it's not an issue.

what do you say? your thoughts?

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[-] jet@hackertalks.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

Do you like talking to the police everyday? because this is how you're going to talk to the police everyday

There's plenty of SMS services that exist already, one single phone number is not going to make a dent

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