Australian Government gets a taste of what everyday people have to deal with in terms of data breaches as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's mobile phone number released online

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• SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  New punishments for hacking politicians’ phones.

  Zero changes for anyone else.

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  • stefenauris@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    hate to say it but you’re probably right

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  • Australis13@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Probably right on the money, sadly.

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• logicbomb@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s really the phone companies’ fault for stagnating instead of innovating.

  There is no reason at this point for most people to have phone numbers at all. We have the technology today to throw the whole concept out the window.

  Replace it with something where a stranger couldn’t guess how to contact a random person. Replace it with something where third parties can’t easily share your contact info.

  You could even have both technologies at the same time to help transition. And we do, as users, but we still need phone numbers because our carriers don’t give us multiple options directly.

  Phone numbers are based on requirements for a system that’s almost 150 years old now. Back when the numbers really meant locations and before people realized how easy it could be exploited to steal old people’s retirement money.

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  • gian@lemmy.grys.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    As today if I give you a phone number you have no idea who is the owner if you don’t look up on some service.
    It will not change if instead of the phone number we use the IMEI or a UUID, somewhere you need to have a link between the owner and the something, if nothing else in your phone and at the phone company.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You still have to have some kind of unique identifier. What do you propose phone numbers are replaced with because I can’t think of anything that isn’t basically just the same but with a different flavour or actually is actively worse.

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    • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Sure you can have a unique identifier. That’s not the issue. The issue is that anyone can contact you via your phone number! This is not a problem with chat apps where people need permission to add you to their contact list. Why not have a system like that?

      Same goes for credit cards. They should need to ask for permission to charge your credit card. Merely knowing your credit card info should not be enough.

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    • GasMaskedLunatic@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Your device and account credentials are unique enough to identify you on the carrier-level. Ultimately, every time you share your contact info, it should be a unique code (QR would be convenient enough) generated by your cell provider. If it’s ever leaked, you just notify your carrier to burn it, and give the contact a new unique code. No two people should be given the same contact, and all of the contacts are simply correlated to your device by the carrier. Additionally, when sharing contacts via QR, they could be modified on the device-level to include e2e encryption keys, thus further securing the transmitted information, not at the trust-me-bro carrier level, but at the user-verifiable device level. If the carrier gets hacked, reset the identifiers, associate the new one in your text app to keep conversations going, and move on like nothing happened. You’ll still be better off than if your phone number was leaked. It’s not perfect, but it’d be a hell of a lot more secure than what we have now.

      In other words: What if a billion dollar company made Signal, but with cell towers, and not as good?

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• BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is HORRIBLE! That RICH people’s Information was Leaked! This needs to be PUNISHED BY DEATH so they Learn to ONLY leak POOR People’s information!

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• RagingRobot@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  867-5309

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• JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What’s the number? So I can make sure I don’t accidentally send him a text…

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• muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I need someone where to send me the number so I can make sure I don’t accidentally send him a message saying cunt

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