[Poll] Burner Phone Numbers and Digital Footprint

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So, I have been keep changing my phone number every 6 months for a few years now. It kind of worked (i.e. new prepaid sims are dirt cheap hence reliefing cost of living, I never received any junk / spam / scam calls, I can give a phone number to whatever shops/ service I want to use as its burner number anyways).

However sometimes it gets me into troubles, e.g. accounts registered with old phone numbers, people tried to reach me but I already changed number, have to repeatedly update my contact details to communities that contact me via phone number, etc.

Since last year, I started worrying my footprint as phone numbers will eventually be recycled and reused, and I am getting tired of running into various issues due to this approach. Therefore I am think about to change.

There’s another thread discussing compartmentalising phone numbers, which is what I am planning to do, I am currently trying out MySudo with just my work number. If it works for me, I will implement the following:

NUMBER_TITLE PURPOSE PURPOSE_SENSITIVITY NUMBER_LIFESPAN TIED_TO_PII ACTIVATE_FREQ
BURNER (PHYSICAL SIM) DAILY DRIVE LOW 6 MONTHS FALSE ALWAYS
WORK (MySudo) FOR COMPANY AND COLLEAGUES MEDIUM TILL CHANGING JOBS TRUE WORKING DAYS
BANK (MySudo) FOR ALL FINANCIAL INSTITUTION HIGH AS LONG AS POSSIBLE TRUE WHEN REQUIRED
GOVERNMENT (MySudo) FOR ALL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES HIGH AS LONG AS POSSIBLE TRUE WHEN REQUIRED

However, it does not address one of my major concern: What about those stupid services that still use stupid SMS as 2FA? Though I have been sharing my accounts with family members, but it only reduces their digital footprint, not mine. And telling them to do it for me seems even worse as I am the one who care, not them.

Hence, PG communities, here’s a poll, what do you do in your life? :rofl:

  • Fxxx digital footprints, just give burner numbers
  • Give them a non-burner, but not-in-use phone number (meaning 5th number)
  • Give them your daily number,they have your PII anyways
  • Fxxx cost of living, if they want phone numbers, ditch them
  • Other (Please leave a comment)
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Are you using the same number for shops as for calling friends? At shops they never verify numbers. You can make one up and keep using it to collect points. Or just grab one from a site like: https://quackr.io/