On July 21, 2019 11:26:44 PM UTC, Douglas Lucas
Dear cryptocurrency hoarders, aspiring cryptocurrency hoarders, and those discarded by -- or barely hanging on in -- a global (anti)society dedicated to assigning high status to those most adept at hoarding commodities, while exterminating those odd enough to, like, help others:
In Seattle where I reside, I'd like to purchase a burner phone for less than $100 USD, though upper limit price is negotiable. Preferably purchase offline with cash.
This phone will be used by a comrade, whom I will coach, to place an international call to a Western country, and a few calls within the United States.
I do not want the recipients of the calls to associate them with me, my name, my voice, my phone number, etc. The recipients of the calls are low-level staffpeople at small/medium-sized enterprises and/or educational institutions.
I do not care what super-duper state-level, corporate-level adversaries know about me and my comrade and the calls. So although juking the NSA and doing James Bond backflips is key to cryptofarters' masturbatory fantasies, please hew to the standard spiels about threat models, etc. Just trying to trick, er undercover interview, some low level staffpeople at small/medium firms and educational institutions. Not God.
A key point is, it would be good if I could install onto the device one of those obscure Russian or otherwise seedy apps that record all the phone calls, so I may transcribe the phone calls later. If that's not an option, then the device needs a loud speakerphone so I can point a small digital audio recorder at it and record the calls for later transcription.
The purpose is journalistic research which, sorry not sorry Russophile Zennadsfnsdjg Harkargfdsjkghsdkjg, I will not describe, even though last time I asked something research-y you tried to pry the purpose out of me, probably so you could use it a springboard to scream pro-Putin crap.
Some folks in Seattle suggested I obtain, from another person, one of the government-funded smartphones that are sometimes handed out by social services here. I've used these devices before, so many millions of adverts clog the screens, they're a nightmare. Also they would betray the area code, which probably isn't a problem but it would be ideal to have at least a non-Seattle area code, maybe an area code in some other Washington state area? Also I'm not sure if they can make international calls, being government funded. Does anyone know
The so-called "Obama phones" are indeed true pieces of shit. They squeeze a few dozen uninstallable apps on a phone with 8G of local storage and like 512M ram... Anyway, I am fairly sure you can make international calls, but depending on the provider you may have to add funds to what comes each month with the device. Also I'm not sure
it's possible to install one of the seedy call-recording apps on one of these gov devices.
It should be, they are just shitty Android devices. But, no guarantees.
I'll be out of state in a few days, travelling in the US Pacific Northwest for a few days, so if there's a model y'all would suggest I buy at an out-of-state 7-Eleven or something, please let me know.
If you don't know, maybe you could suggest a subreddit where it would be more helpful to ask, or an up-to-date guide or FAQ about this sort of thing.
Thanks! May all your cryptocurrency fantasies come true -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon%27s_obol -- may instead of gazing at Assange's face endlessly, we instead do things that are pro social.
Doug