• gtr@programming.dev
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    16 hours ago

    Hashing doesn’t really do anything because there are too few possible phone numbers. Easy to bruteforce. See the researchers who enumerated the WhatsApp users database recently via the internet…

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      12 hours ago

      Hold up. They also have profile pictures and other stuff. So Meta offered the option to create a global phone book, but also to create a phone book of children worldwide + a timeline of profile pictures. Meta’s statement was that it wasn’t a big deal because it was public data… So Meta’s pedos dream phone book is something else entirely.