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I've designed an OSINT system with this specific feature in mind (it's on github since a few months). Basically being able to go from phonenumber->accounts is very powerful and works even more efficiently to identify a person than an email address or even a real name. The abuse potential of this is far greater than some people assume.
I refused the 2FA nag on Facebook because I didn’t want them to have my phone number Then after a while the nag started popping up with my phone number already filled out. Really fucking creepy and not okay.
For what it's worth, I just deleted my phone number and added Google Authenticator, and it seemed to work fine.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19291987
Surprisingly, it didn't generate discussion or upvotes like this particular submission.
This will make keeping your social media private during recruiting much much harder because rather than trying to search for your name on FB or your email, an interviewer can just search your listed contact number. Names are often not unique but phone numbers are. This matters because creating a new email account for recruiting is trivial, yet creating a new phone number for recruiting is not. Most phones are not dua…
Second phone numbers aren’t that hard or expensive. you don’t need a second sim, just an app. There is a yc startup providing them: openphone
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There are also a non negligible number of people using an alias on facebook because they have good reason. Apparently when a woman uses a pseudonym on facebook, it is not unlikely that it is because of a nasty/stalkerish ex that she would rather get away from. I am actually in favor of a transparent society (a la david brin) , but we have to grown up a lot and handle such cases before the advantages that come with it…
> in favor of a transparent society I suggest you read The Transparent Society by Byung-Chul Han. It’s a brutal 50-page indictment of the hypercult of transparency and its effects on the human soul, on the political discourse, and on traditional values like truth and beauty. Might change your view on the costs of transparency.
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Given the complete lack of respect that Facebook has for individual privacy and the wellbeing of our society in general why should anyone believe this?
If you think that of FB, why would you be applying to work there?
If you are a Facebook employee, or are close to one, please help me understand. How does it feel to see reports like this being released almost weekly? I realize people are very good at dealing with moral dissonance when their paycheck depends on it, but surely you must be thinking, talking to your colleagues, about what your personal responsibility in this is?
They don't care. A job at Facebook is still considered prestigious by a large part of the tech community. They're starting to be grouped more with Palantir than Google, though.
That's confusing. Is Palantir regarded as better or worse than Google?