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🙄 Modern Communications 🙄

How shall we contact you? Apparently, not easily.

1. Cell phone, no. Inconsistent for years now.
- Pixel 9 Fold: hardware failure, provider failure. Couldn't port number from Verizon to GFi.
- iPhone 15, hardware failure. Couldn't port from T-Mobile to Verizon.
- TCL 60 5G (color eInk), great phone, but I have no idea what the number is among all of the former ones and it's possibly not even turned on anymore.

2. SIP / VOIP phone: sure, the desk phone rings, and SMS can be received but can't go out (why? I have no idea, and I'm tired of troubleshooting).

3. Email: sure, if thunderbird didn't keep crashing, corrupting cache, and deleting months of messages during folder sync operations. Backups, sure, but the workflow is so broken now that I don't bother. Filters are ruined, recreating filters - no,no,never,again,please,no, the spam is overwhelming. I don't want to miss using Gmail, come on now, wtf.

4. Matrix? iMessage? XMPP, IRC? Whatsomething? Someothernetwork?
Too many networks, too much segmentation, no universal anything, forget useful or consistent notifications across several devices.

5. Write me a letter... actually don't, because USPS routinely loses important packages or the mail is stolen by literal gangs and the Feds don't prosecute anymore. Also, I don't own any paper or any pens, and forget about stamps.

6. Telegram? Signal? No.
Guess what's linked to a cell phone number? And even when you pay for the Very Special Money account on Telegram they will not respond to messages about having lost one's cell phone number (see #1). If you've tried to message me on Telegram since June, those messages are gone - I cannot access them ever again apparently.

İmamoğlu hüsranı! CHP'yi şoke eden olay! 2 milyon üyeye SMS gönderdi: CHP Genel Merkezi, yaklaşık 2 milyon üyesine kurumsal adresi üzerinden Ekrem İmamoğlu adına SMS gönderdi ve hesabı takip etmelerini istedi. Partinin çağrısına rağmen takipçi sayısında istenilen artış yaşanmadı.

İmamoğlu’nun cezaevinden gönderdiği mesajların da paylaşıldığı Cumhurbaşkanlığı Aday Ofisi hesabının takipçisi, yapılan çağrıya… eshahaber.com.tr/haber/imamogl EshaHaber.com.tr #İmamoğlu #CHP #SMS #SosyalMedya #Haber

Den Begriff "stille SMS" kannte ich bisher nicht, sondern nur den Begriff #OTA(Over the air), die Mobilfunkbetreiber seit Jahrzehnten einsetzen um z.B. Handy's von neuen Kunden zu konfigurieren.

Aber natürlich kann man jede Technik auch missbrauchen.

Interessant finde ich in diesem Zusammenhang das Google Play Store und andere Android Apps wie WhatApps die Berechtigung "SMS" bei der Installation anfordern.

Sollte es also zu einer #Massenüberwachung der deutschen #Bevölkerung von #staatlicher Seite kommen, sind die #Einfaltstüren die #Android Apps die als Berechtigung SMS anfordern.

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𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

✧ SMS Hindenburg ✧

SMS Hindenburg was a battlecruiser of the Imperial German Navy, the third ship of the Derfflinger class. She was named in honor of Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, the victor of the Battle of Tannenberg and the Battle of the Masurian Lakes, as well as Supreme Commander of the German armies from 1916. The ship was the last capital ship...

#ImperialGermanNavy #Hindenburg #SMS #ScapaFlow #Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Hind

Polizei versendet Tausende stille SMS zur Handyortung

Bei Ermittlungen dürfen die Handys von Verdächtigen überwacht werden. Die Thüringer Polizei hat von dieser Möglichkeit zuletzt tausendfach Gebrauch gemacht.

heise.de/news/Polizei-versende

heise online · Polizei versendet Tausende stille SMS zur HandyortungBy dpa
#IT#Polizei#SMS