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#asknostr #privacy #graphene

I'm in the process of increasing my privacy and security and I'm wondering if anyone knows how to achieve the following. Or I might have to vibe code it.

Keep a 'normie' phone at home connected to wifi.

Have a graphene phone as my everyday phone with a data-only esim.

When people call or text my normal phone, it will automatically forward the call or text via an app to my graphene phone.

I'm sick of having a phone number (and an identity attached to it), but whilst I communicate with the normie world, I need to be contactable via legacy channels.

This solution will save me carrying two phones.

Zaps for the best solution.

Brisket 2w ago 💬 3

I have a second normie phone number.

Everything goes to voice mail.

Very few people have the number to my daily driver. I give out my normie number freely.

Every few days I delete the spam voicemail on the normie phone.

I found it hard to maintain my silent link data service.

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TBone 2w ago

I found a data only service for around 5000 sats per month and an annual subscription to a normie number for $2 per year.

I figure that's sustainable, as long as I can make it work.

Pete Winn 🔆 2w ago

I’m with brisket on this one. I had a normie number that everyone had for about ten years then I retired that to a drawer and got a new number and barely told anyone.

Great move :)

TBone 2w ago 💬 2

I guess I want to save money on a legacy mobile phone subscription whilst using a privacy phone to it's full extent so I can at least pretend to be normal to friends and family.

Rather than having the discussion that all my relatives and friends need to download simplex to be able to communicate with me. 😂

I temporarily retired my phone number for 2 weeks and realised how many people and services relied on using it.

Then I found a prepaid PAYG plan for $2 per year just to keep the number active.

I figure, as long as it can receive calls and texts (and forward them to me over the internet) that's pretty cheap.

Pete Winn 🔆 2w ago

I can see that use case. I was thinking the normie number would be full of the usual spam, but this is more “normies you like who you’ve yet to privacy pill” 🤣

Calls wise you can often just straight forward from the phone. I’m not sure texts are as easy but perhaps you could load a number into a phone emulator then have everything delivered via Nostr :)

Or if they’re on what’s app you could run a bot on WhatsAppJS on the normie number and use that to forward to simplex :)

TBone 2w ago

Ideally it would be a simple bridge from legacy calls and texts over the mobile network to a third party app.

That way, the sender doesn't need to have (or even know they're using) a third party app to communicate with me.

They dial a number, they reach me - even though I'm nowhere near my phone.

In bitcoin terms, they tap their credit card and get debited, but I get paid in sats.