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yttribium on Jan 5, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Lithuania to introduce pre-paid SIM registration f...

Did you know that within living memory there was an entire network of anonymous telephones you could pay for with untraceable cash in five cent increments?

Eddy_Viscosity2 on Jan 6, 2024 [–]

As I recall, these could be 'traced', but you have to keep them talking long enough for it to work.

josephcsible on Jan 6, 2024 | [–]

The payphone itself could be traced, but not the identity of the person talking on it.

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