In HBO's The Wire, drug dealers rely on cheap "burner" phones, which are used for a short time and then thrown away, to thwart police efforts to record their calls. The idea of a temporary, anonymous phone number has also caught on in the app world as witnessed by investors' recent decisio...
http://gigaom.com/2013/10/14/feds-reportedly-used-phone-database-to-track-burner-use/
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