It appears very difficult to do that without rooting the phone. You could instead have the notification trigger an external switch that disconnects the charger, or just put the charger on a timer. I just use my phone’s timer alarm to tell me when to unplug, and that has worked pretty well.

Idk maybe it’s documented some other place or the dealer is supposed to explain it. I’ve never dealt with the process myself.

I have heard (not sure) that at least here in California, the rule applies to using pot in the past year, or maybe it was 5 years. I expect it is written down somewhere.

Do you mean TOTP? FIDO? Or what? FOSS ones exist but they might not do exactly the right thing. I’ve had some ideas for self-built too. What would you do on the host interface side? Wouldn’t you want the host to not have the secret?

It’s an interesting question.

Vance’s motorcade used the closed highway? Lol.

Normally you would want automatic restart rather than a user alert. These days you’d do that with systemctl, see the docs.

So do they do this exercise routinely or is it something new? Have they done it before in the exact same way? Did the freeway get closed?

In a discussion about the OS there’s possibly some room for that. But this thread is about a phone. c/degoogle might be a better location.

I’m saying that Android phones and the partly proprietary Jolla phone are basically equivalent.

Android also uses a Linux kernel.

Android doesn’t belong here either.

Self hosted or go home.

Yeah I don’t currently use any ride hailing apps and haven’t posted to Craigslist in ages. Some services will be more paranoid than others. Depends on how much fraud they encounter I guess.

The thing in the US was about a sim farm in New York and the reporting was pretty stupid from what I could tell. At present you can get US mobile phones and sims without ID. Also, most services that send sms validation don’t care if it’s a real mobile number. I use a VoIP number and it’s usually fine.

If you’re using a hosted sim to forward SMS to your real phone # or email, you have to expect that a determined or powerful enough opponent will link the two. What happens then probably depends on what you were doing.

Interesting though as you say, also shady. Also seems marginal. Sending enough SMS to recover the monthly cost of the SIM cards seems likely to get the carriers’ attention after a while. Outbound SMS from Twilio are around 0.8 cents each in the US fwiw. Much less hassle. Maybe even less from carriers. No idea about EU.

The nature of the hearing reflects a series of quick moves and countermoves by the parties in the already-dramatic litigation.

Are they calling the judge a party in the litigation? If not, what were the other moves?

The news article was about a specific incident in the EU and idk if it generalizes to “governments” but yes, sim farms, and in some cases racks full of real phones running apps, really do exist, mostly for skeezy if not criminal purposes. It’s not like some privacy conscious rando having a few burner phones for whatever. If they have 10,000 active phone numbers terminated in a warehouse, they are up to something sus.

The UN thing was stupid, it peddled a story about disabling the phone network bla bla. The real purpose of those sim banks is various forms of illicit scraping or click fraud, signing up for 100’s of fake SMS verified Facebook accounts so you can run sales scams, etc. That sounds like the nature of the thing that was just busted.

Article lede: European law enforcement in an operation codenamed ‘SIMCARTEL’ has dismantled an illegal SIM-box service that enabled more than 3,200 fraud cases and caused at least 4.5 million euros in losses.

I think you don’t want to know the real answer. It sounds like you want a phone app, but what you really have to do is flush your phone down the toilet and use a totally different approach. Also, there is absolutely no way to avoid difficult opsec. The communications technology is irrelevant since the greatest vulnerability in any security system is the people who use it. Do you think the private messenger software will free sessions with your therapist from spying? Guess again.

As the saying used to go, you’re seeking a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem.