Cybersecurity 205: Phone Number Shield
What's the difference between a regular cell phone number and a phone number shield? The shield number is an intermediate number that separates you from the world's cyberhackers and neurohackers.
What is a phone number shield? Others call it a burner number or a burner phone.
Phone number shield is an intermediate number that you distribute to people and organizations that you interact with. However, the phone number is not in direct contact with your smart phone, but enables you to still receive phone calls, text messages and send text messages and make outbound phone calls.
Cyberhackers and neurohackers utilize your smart phone number to hack you directly. In order to shield you from their attacks (financial, information, location, privacy) the use of a shield phone number adds an additional layer of separation from you and the world around you that is not always full of good people or good artificial intelligence ais.
Shield Phone Number AA-BBB-CCC-DDDD is provided to restaurants when you go out to dine and eat or vendors when placing an order online, these are everyday transactions with unknown people and vendors not inside your circle per say.
Note: Do not use a shield phone number for two factor authentication. The intent is to utilize it for transactions (e.g. points at your local coffee shop, points at your local restaurant, etc. as part of customer retention and order status updates (e.g. courier delivery service as well as if you decide to pickup food).
What vendors can you utilize? This list will be published after I review a few. I will not disclose which one I utilize, due to obvious reasons (vendor neutrality and personal privacy).
Here are several of the methods to enable a shield phone number:
Everyday Citizen:
Download an app and configure it to forward to your actual phone number and send outbound calls through the app. You can also configure it for text messages.
Setup a separate VOIP number via service provider.
Not Your Everyday Citizen:
Build your own secure VOIP system and host it somewhere secure, away from prying eyes you are trying to avoid. Just keep in mind those prying eyes, if national security, will not be able to shield any cyber or neuro attacks on your hardware if in another nation state different from where you are a citizen.
Purchase a separate phone with an eSIM or SIM (these can get cloned)
Purchase a SIM card for temporary use (go through an intermediary clearing house reseller, that hides your identity, while traveling with cash and a phone from a used/refurb seller.).
Important Note: if you’re trying to use this type of burner number or shield number to do something illegal or to get around without national security agencies knowing about it, tough luck, cause you’ve got to do a lot more than that to reduce your virtual and physical signature these days.
Feel free to subscribe to my substack to learn more, but keep in mind it is nearly impossible to avoid/faux-out national security, almost.
References:
[1] https://dataoverhaulers.com/protect-your-phone-number/
[2] https://www.androidpolice.com/best-burner-phone-number-apps-choices/#google-voice-the-best-free-way-to-get-a-burner-number
[3] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/burner-second-phone-number/id505800761