Monthly (daily?) reminder that you should use an app that encrypt your messages.
Best you can do is
\3001#12345#\
and memorize your regular cell information for areas you frequent.
(NFC how to get asterisks to show on here, help is useless put them in where the backslashes are)
For anyone who is confused:
Star #3001#12345# Start
I love how it opens up a separate app. Good stuff
*3001#12345#* I'm an asterix * and I'm ok
[ed: ***proof-no-space*required**]
So: " * #999# * " should work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unstructured_Supplementary_Ser...
In addition to the already mentioned code of [STAR]3001#12345# there is also [STAR]#06# which will show your IMEI.
There were plenty of others (including spelling out 'WARRANTY' to get the manufacture date of the phone) but I forgot most of them.
Interestingly, on the iPhone, dialling anything of the format [STAR]# ...anything... # will cause the screen to go grey as if a separate app, then after a short delay tell you that your code was invalid.
*3001#12345#*
If I recall it limited encrypted messages to 60 characters before splitting. It was also annoying in that you needed to initiate an OTR handshake to start messaging.
I'm ditching Pidgin-OTR today actually because of the OTR usability issues needing to handshake on every laptop restart. Will be going over to bitlbee terminating OTR on a server and then accessing my ZNC supporting push through TLS. Much less jarring.
OMEMO would be better than OTR for this, but not much supports it yet.
Moxie himself spoke about this in the past.
Carriers being awful is a separate problem. My annoyance rests with the 2G protocol being awful.
Phones, especially smartphones, are pocket spies. If you need privacy, don't take them with you!*
There is no such thing as a privacy smartphone.
* Honestly if you want a private conversation don't have any kind of phone or laptop in the same room.
Do you have any credible source for this claim. If true, it's truly alarming!
> Rather than confirming a target’s identity with operatives or informants on the ground, the CIA or the U.S. military then orders a strike based on the activity and location of the mobile phone a person is believed to be using.
You are right. This is very disturbing. I guess they do this a lot in Northern Pakistan / Waziristan area in the tribal lands and mountains? What if the Terrorist read stories like this, and gave their cell phone to mules who then get killed?
My father's family (he grew up in India in Bombay) got split in half during the Partition of India and Pakistan when the Brits left India. No wonder there is so much rage and anti-american sentiment in Pakistan (my Pakistani relatives complaint all the time on Skype)
But you really want something like like Signal.