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Harassing someone via a phone number leads to a very quick and routine identification by the police.

There’s a nerd gambit where we say well technically you can trace IP addresses too but in practice it’s much faster and easier for police to track someone down by phone number than to go through all the steps of tracing someone’s activity through a service provider and then to their ISP and then to their household.

It’s not the same at all.



I wish it actually worked that way, because we'd have safer internet.

But the reality is the local police don't have jurisdiction either in other localities or other countries.

If it actually worked as you described, toll fraud and scam call centers wouldn't exist.


Don't burner phones exist?


Burner phones are tricky b/c many countries require ID to use a SIM card.




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