Comment on A Researcher Figured Out How to Reveal Any Phone Number Linked to a Google Account

Stamets@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Our names, numbers, and home addresses used to be in a book delivered to everyone’s door or found stacked in a phone booth on the street. That was normal for generations.

  It’s funny how much fuckwits can change the course of society and how we can’t have nice things.

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  • dmtalon@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Right, but when everyone got phone books, those were only shared locally in the town. It would be pretty hard to figure out someones phone number from across the state/country without the internet unless you knew someone in the town.

    You could also pay to be unlisted, which is a luxury long since gone. How cool would it be to make your data ‘unlisted’ by paying a small monthly fee.

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    • Mongostein@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It would be even cooler if we had a right to privacy

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      • dmtalon@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        no doubt, lucky us, we get neither…

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    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Phone books from outside my region were available at the library; that place where they store a consolidated collection of books for just anyone to sign out and use.

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      • Paradox@lemdro.id ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I once used one to look up my friend from summer camp. He lived in New York City and I didn’t live anywhere close

        Library had a bunch of NYC phonebooks

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      • dmtalon@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I don’t remember that, however it doesn’t surprise me at least for a radius around your area. I’d be surprised if they had all of them from all the states

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    • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Proton estimates the average Americans data is worth $700 per year.

      Sign me up for $1000/year privacy fee and you will make more money by doing absolutely nothing.

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      • Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Or, how about they fuck off and leave me alone with my private data? I don’t want to have to lag for something that should be an irrevocable right.

        Even if you completely degoogle and whatnot, these cunts will still get hold of your data one way or the other. Its sickening.

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  • Stamets@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Still are. I got a phone book delivered a week ago, I shit thee not. Granted I’m on a small island and the book is small too. But like, you can pay to have your number removed from the book. Can you have it removed from this? Not to mention all the 2FA stuff that can be connected to the phone number. Someone clones your number or takes it and suddenly they’ve got access to a whole lot of your login stuff.

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    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Pay to have it removed! That sounds like blackmail doxing.

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    • unphazed@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      My phone book is smaller than a novel and only has yellow pages these days.

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