Most burner phones also use microSIMs rather than nanoSIMs ... but whichever look you choose you’re getting a 4G-capable device. That means international borders aren’t a concern as Voice-Over-LTE ...

A phone that is not connected to your identity, is only used for a small set of calls or activities, and can be discarded if and when it is suspected of being tracked or compromised. Burner phones are ...

Inspired by Kenneth Lipp on Twitter. Specifically, this passage was interesting to me: Let's say a narcotics task force is trying to maintain a wiretap on a drug dealer, but the drug dealer uses ...

A pay-as-you-go cellphone that is used to maintain privacy. Often used for illegal transactions, both parties use burner phones, which are trashed after a short while. There is often no ...

Sometimes, they even destroy the phone entirely. And if you've ever wondered why they dumped the device, it's because it was ...

Many people had no idea what a burner phone was until crime drama The Wire popularised the term in the early 2000s. Now they're the talk of Washington - here's why. It all started with White House ...

People attending the Beijing Olympics should bring burner phones and create email accounts for their time in China, cyber security firm Internet 2.0 said on Tuesday. Several countries have also ...

Swarbrick said: “As we landed in Beijing, we were given burner phones. We were told ‘This phone is fully charged. When you ...

The cops are hoping to gain access to the mysterious phone call made by the assassin who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson minutes before the slaying, hoping that it could provide ...