New Mission, New Burner
That didn't take long ...
Several days ago in Discarding Digital Detritus I shared some thoughts on how to properly free oneself from mobile devices that have served their purpose. The newly cleared space in my mobile devices drawer lasted a whole eleven days before I had to scoot out and lay hands on this:
Late last year when I commissioned a new burner it was a $40 AT&T Calypso 3 and at the time it was literally the only burner on the shelf. I suspected there were new models, and that IS a Calypso 4, but the shelf was equally bare. If you’re paying attention to Peter Zeihan, you might be wondering if this is the start of supply chains draining. But whatever the case, I have a shiny new $40 phone.
Do you see what I see?
Vision settings
As sixty relentlessly creeps up on me so does the magnification level for my reading glasses. So being able to pick a large font AND ensure that it’s high contrast? Sweet. Oh, there’s also a 6.1” display, up from the 5.5” of the prior model.
And then my ardor cooled a great deal. The device will NOT commission using only the mobile network, that’s strike one. The solution for this was the hotspot service of the Calypso 3. And then if you fat finger the passphrase from a wifi network there is no way to correct that error. Luckily I don’t actually use the wifi hotspot so renaming the network took care of that problem.
Mission Parameters:
The nature of the problem at hand is pretty pedestrian. A not so large company has a persistent intruder. I don’t mean persistent in the sense of being in the network and difficult to eject, this intruder swung and missed on a wire transfer scam. The target is now thoroughly alerted and they’ve adjusted things such that this intruder isn’t going to accomplish anything, but he must be bored, because he keeps trying.
Every month in Q4 of 2023 this client brought me some weird new problem, and I knocked each of them out for the princely sum of one billable hour. They were all legit one hour things, doctoring SPF/DKIM/DMARC and the like, but I think they’ve decided I need one small job a month, which is cool by me. So now I have a “job” that comes with an email and a phone extension and schooling this hapless fraudster is this month’s tasking.
I’m thinking this guy probably needs a document to review, one that’s got a Canary Token in it …