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blibble on March 26, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Twitter forces all new users to enter a valid phon...

in the UK you can wander into any phone shop and get 5 SIMs for free

also: the phone companies allow you to receive SMS without putting a penny on them

Taniwha on March 26, 2019 [–]

Not much use if you need 200k numbers for your russian botnet

blibble on March 26, 2019 | [–]

if you want to do that you can allocate yourself a block from ofcom

costs nothing also

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