Jmp.chat provides sim activations for xmr but honestly no matter what anything with a cell radio is being logged by its upstream carrier.

If you want a truely private number, use jmp.chat with a separate xmpp server over something like mullvad.

For what its worth, the sim swap protection might be worth it considering how many services force you to use SMS for 2fa, and they seem to ask for less data than usual.

Is it better than your average carrier? Maybe. Is any SMS/phone call coming out of your personal number something you should consider private from the government? Probably not.

Its still going to have to go over the big boy carriers, and its still probably going to be tied to a phone number several institutions will know is yours if its your main number.

If it isn’t, use jmp.chat, alongside a good XMPP provider and VPN, or forego the PSTN all-together.

They call him: “Stinky Mike”

Imagine next time you go to the doctors, they hand you a screw-top specimen container and gesture towards the bathroom for you to fart into the container so they can send it off to the lab for analysis.

Eh, my early g9 civic is nice, though I think they ruined it only like coupla years later with cell radios.

Honestly could a just stuck Debian at the end XP

Likewise, if you set an iPhone to use Advanced Data Protection.

You can pretend your iPhone isn’t owned by a corporation that just swore fealty to the current regime, but until its running a custom ROM it isn’t fucking yours.

Only phone that comes your own from factory I’d maybe the pinephone. Otherwise, get a pixel, rip out the factory OS install, and throw Graphen OS on it.

Both Android AND iOS have taken code from Graphene and used it to secure their codebases. Its probably one of, if not the most secure OS available to the average person today.