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<blockquote data-quote="509322" data-source="post: 769350">Exactly.Here in the U.S., get an unpublished, private number. Then open a few &quot;safe&quot; online accounts like Hotmail, Gmail, Amazon, etc that want your phone number - the ones who say they don&#039;t share your datas and that their data centers are uber safe... and guess what ? Within months your phone number is being blown-up by scammers.The how and why of it happening is irrelevant.... all that matters is that it does happen despite you being careful, using common sense protections, security softs, VPN, privacy extensions, etc.I understand these things. So I&#039;m not going to behave like a nutball operating on fear and try to craft &quot;impenetrable fortresses&quot; on my PCs and other digital devices. Taking the approach &quot;I am confident because I am paranoid and my reaction is to carry a really big stick&quot; is pure paranoia. It is fear-driven and over-compensatory. The stuff that is done while operating in that mode is more often than not pointless and needless.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="509322, post: 769350"] Exactly. Here in the U.S., get an unpublished, private number. Then open a few "safe" online accounts like Hotmail, Gmail, Amazon, etc that want your phone number - the ones who say they don't share your datas and that their data centers are uber safe... and guess what ? Within months your phone number is being blown-up by scammers. The how and why of it happening is irrelevant.... all that matters is that it does happen despite you being careful, using common sense protections, security softs, VPN, privacy extensions, etc. I understand these things. So I'm not going to behave like a nutball operating on fear and try to craft "impenetrable fortresses" on my PCs and other digital devices. Taking the approach "I am confident because I am paranoid and my reaction is to carry a really big stick" is pure paranoia. It is fear-driven and over-compensatory. The stuff that is done while operating in that mode is more often than not pointless and needless. [/QUOTE]

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