Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | somesomething's commentslogin

Took a risk and used it, like other people here. Then I saw the price for what they are selling. $100 a month?! Wow! Isn't there some other way to lock down this info?


That service is for a 5g phone plan (built on top of att/tmobile). So you aren't just paying for the security


Thank you! Admittedly I was sticker shocked and missed some of the key details they were selling.


Yeah. Tool goal was to create awareness around SIM Swap first


Efani Secure Mobile doesn't delete info. We're a Secure Mobile Service which is $99/month. Goal of this is to create awareness on how easy is to SIM Swap or get into your mobile account


Where do you obtain your information?


We use data broker APIs. Most of them could be found through simple google search. Not every data broker has all the info so it may be a combination of multiple. I know this request has came multiple times but it's hard to tell exact source without specifically looking into individual case


Is there a benefit to naming weather events? I'm not able to read the entire article because of paywall, so I'm not sure if it discusses this.


Anecdotally, in the US we name tropical storms and hurricanes. There have been cases in the past where storms that were just as severe that did not originate in the Atlantic were never named and caused significant damage.

There was a push several years ago by popular weather broadcast channels (that effectively re-package and re-sell National Weather Service data and forecasts) to begin naming winter storms in the same fashion as hurricanes. The NWS put out a strong warning to their own forecasters to NOT use those names in official materials.

Then there is the trend by news media to replace “hurricane” with “Superstorm” when a storm causes a particularly high dollar amount of damage but may not have maintained hurricane force winds or simply because it hit a densely populated area.

The definition of superstorm precludes any other named meteorological event such as a hurricane. But superstorm sounds better than hurricane.


It facilitates communication which is specially important when discussing wheater events that can cause harm.

Example: "The Zoe heatwave is comming" "The Zoe heatwave has increased in severity" "Local Officials decided to restrict forest activies due to Zoe heatwave"

By glance, or just reading titles, an average person knows about the danger and it's incomming. It's harder to get that information on unnamed weather phenomems. Example:

"A heatwave is comming" "A heatwave is worse than expected" "Local Officials decided to restrict forest activies due to incoming heatwave"

NOAA info on related subject https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/storm-names.html


damn... this hit harder than it should. Sometimes I need to hear the obvious.


I like the metaphor too but also so much of society hasn't figured out the sugar thing either.


Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: