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Y'all know we used to publish everybody's phone number in a book along with their address and then distribute copies to every household, right? We did it for many decades and it was fine. Every pay phone, which was a phone anyone with a couple coins could make anonymous calls from, had this giant book right there for your reference. Everyone knows this, right? If you didn't know someone's number you could look it up…
Y'all know we used to publish everybody's phone number in a book along with their address and then distribute copies to every household, right? We did it for many decades and it was fine. Every pay phone, which was a phone anyone with a couple coins could make anonymous calls from, had this giant book right there for your reference. Everyone knows this, right? If you didn't know someone's number you could look it up…
One key difference is that, at least in the UK, you could opt out
Y'all know we used to publish everybody's phone number in a book along with their address and then distribute copies to every household, right? We did it for many decades and it was fine. Every pay phone, which was a phone anyone with a couple coins could make anonymous calls from, had this giant book right there for your reference. Everyone knows this, right? If you didn't know someone's number you could look it up…
One key difference is that, at least in the UK, you could opt out
Y'all know we used to publish everybody's phone number in a book along with their address and then distribute copies to every household, right? We did it for many decades and it was fine. Every pay phone, which was a phone anyone with a couple coins could make anonymous calls from, had this giant book right there for your reference. Everyone knows this, right? If you didn't know someone's number you could look it up…
Part of the issue is the meaning of privacy now. Decades were spent fighting for the right to not receive, or to receive targeted phone calls. We're now (at least my cohort) in a world where no one, ever answers the phone. Either you're in my phone book, or I'm never answering the phone. It's rather liberating.
Advertising is cancer, and I'm constantly surprised by the ends to which people go to justify its continued existence.
Sometimes people will change their Facebook name to be more anonymous however their Facebook url stil has their full name on it.
Not sure if that's still the case, but Facebook used to leak one's maiden name via URL for people who changed their surname after getting married.
This doesn't seem like something which is of concern but on a tangential note, I wanted to check how you guys maintain your phone number privacy. Consider the cases: - I absolutely hate giving phone number to new ecommerce sites as it is just a database that will eventually get leaked. The only one I can trust here is Amazon probably. - Phone number on packages. A person can read your name, address and phone number f…
It started attracting spam after about a year. I found that I never need to be alerted about anything via SMS though.
The only time I use it is when I know I should have just received a message, which is at the top of the inbox above all this week’s spam.
I’m quite aware that I’m side stepping a lot of two factor policies by doing this. (My phone mail client can read all my email accounts.) One has to be careful not to do anything silly and I’m glad GitHub steered away from SMS 2FAC.
Before gathering up the mob and handing out the torches and pitchforks, you should probably establish what the facts actually are. I don't think the author of this post has really done that. The way these systems should work, and appear to work in Facebook's case, is that the amount of information revealed depends on risk analysis. For example, I just tried recovery from an IP I've used Facebook from, and from a fres…
It's of much help to me.
I use different email addresses for different services, and any help the service can give me to ensure I'm giving it the right email I use on it is helpful.
Y'all know we used to publish everybody's phone number in a book along with their address and then distribute copies to every household, right? We did it for many decades and it was fine. Every pay phone, which was a phone anyone with a couple coins could make anonymous calls from, had this giant book right there for your reference. Everyone knows this, right? If you didn't know someone's number you could look it up…
I'm sure not everyone knows this, because there are are people on this site who have not grown up with phone books. The article talks about a reverse phone book: according to the author, given a phone number, you are able to look up name (and profile picture). To my understanding there were no reverse-lookup phone books like that back in the day.
Y'all know we used to publish everybody's phone number in a book along with their address and then distribute copies to every household, right? We did it for many decades and it was fine. Every pay phone, which was a phone anyone with a couple coins could make anonymous calls from, had this giant book right there for your reference. Everyone knows this, right? If you didn't know someone's number you could look it up…
I'm sure not everyone knows this, because there are are people on this site who have not grown up with phone books. The article talks about a reverse phone book: according to the author, given a phone number, you are able to look up name (and profile picture). To my understanding there were no reverse-lookup phone books like that back in the day.