u/Calm_Dog546

This is an old 675P semi-public Japanese payphone from the 1980s. Often found in private businesses, especially tobacco shops.

Put together the best-condition pieces from a couple units, and hooked it up to this neat little device that lets it operate as a landline through your smartphone on Bluetooth. It even sends the pay signals to check for coins, so you can operate it as originally intended (10 yen for 1 minute, 100 yen for 10 minutes).

Now every call I get rings through the payphone. There‘s also a key switch to turn it to free calling mode, so it can just be used as a normal landline.

Happy to answer any questions. Many of this type of unit available to purchase on Japanese auction sites.

Perhaps many of us have seen this: https://blog.inverteum.com/p/how-hackers-drained-1m-from-2fa-enabled-brokerage-account

Basically, an account can be drained without ever transferring money out (and thus no security alerts). The mechanism in this article concerns using options on obscure securities

The brokerage considers it not their problem, no hope of recovery. (Except maybe from public outcry.)

Anyone looked at this and have any security ideas? The article’s basic recommendation is using passkeys, tying your login to your machine. And of course all usual precautions (password manager, etc.)

Be safe out there!