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Wish it supported wildcards. I'm not comfortable putting in my phone number for the exact reasons the author states.
That being said, I think the cat is out of the bag on this one so maybe that wouldn’t be the end of the world.
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Why would you give it to Facebook?
Because 12-13 years ago when a lot of people signed up, it wasn't clear that they were exceptionally evil. Pre-IPO, pre-ads, back when it was just status updates and photos, it didn't strike a lot of people (myself included) as a particularly bad idea. We hadn't seen the monster social media would become when it suddenly had to improve quarterly profits.
I'm looking forward to the sequel, "Have I Been 'Have I Been Facebooked'ed" when it turns out this is just a data harvesting operation. If you don't want your phone number leaked don't hand it over to a random website that pinky swears it won't keep it. It's maybe not a scam, but still...
My phone number is a 10-digit number, the first 3 of which are an area code. It gets spam calls and texts (though that miraculously decreased on November 4th...) as it is. Now, combined with browser fingerprinting, perhaps this site can tie my specific 10-digit number to some other aspects of who I am, but I'll leave that part as an exercise for a willing volunteer. I'm not terribly concerned about entering my phone…
Wish it supported wildcards. I'm not comfortable putting in my phone number for the exact reasons the author states.
Allowing searches with wildcards is analogous to publishing the entire database. That being said, I think the cat is out of the bag on this one so maybe that wouldn’t be the end of the world.
What's the harm in publishing a list of phone numbers, without any other info attached? I can generate a list of all phone numbers in north america by iterating through all the digits.
I'm looking forward to the sequel, "Have I Been 'Have I Been Facebooked'ed" when it turns out this is just a data harvesting operation. If you don't want your phone number leaked don't hand it over to a random website that pinky swears it won't keep it. It's maybe not a scam, but still...
Hmm I haven't given facebook a phone number. How can I check if my account is included in the leak? Haveibeenpwned doesn't include facebook in the leaks with my FB email, but I'm not sure I'm checking in the right place.
Answering myself: haveibeenpwned includes the facebook leak in the main page check, so if it doesn't show there, you're not included. No need to give out your phone number if you registered via email.
AFAIK most of the records in the leak didn't have an email attached.
Facebook should email those affected... surely they know who was compromised or not. Shouldn't have to use random sites for this. Why has there been no communication from them?
I don’t particularly like Facebook or any big corporation FYI.