Best to avoid using the “Have I been facebooked” website
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#2It's kinda crazy how paranoid people have become around stuff like phone numbers. Even if this site were recording the numbers, what good is it?
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#4It's kinda crazy how paranoid people have become around stuff like phone numbers. Even if this site were recording the numbers, what good is it?
Do you not get spam calls on your phone? Phone numbers that are put into this site are likely to be valid & active, making them valuable data to sell.
Re: Best to avoid using the “Have I been facebooked” website
#5It's kinda crazy how paranoid people have become around stuff like phone numbers. Even if this site were recording the numbers, what good is it?
Do you not get spam calls on your phone? Phone numbers that are put into this site are likely to be valid & active, making them valuable data to sell.
From what I can tell, spam calls are mostly war dialing. Some of them are actually going sequentially, my spouse's number is about 400 away from mine, and sometimes she gets the same automated call minutes after me.
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#6> The answer is: use HIBP, or https://haveibeenpwned.com/. They’ve got the technical (and social) bits of this process right!
While I'd trust HIBP more it isn't doing anything significantly different with the lookup process, is it?
"There's no k-anonymity implementation for phone numbers at this point in time." https://www.troyhunt.com/the-facebook-phone-numbers-are-now-...
Putting a number sends it directly in the GET request: https://haveibeenpwned.com/unifiedsearch/%2B1%20123%20456%20...
Edit: as does looking up an email. It's password lookups that use local hashing/k-anonymity: https://haveibeenpwned.com/Privacy
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Do you not get spam calls on your phone? Phone numbers that are put into this site are likely to be valid & active, making them valuable data to sell.
From what I can tell, spam calls are mostly war dialing. Some of them are actually going sequentially, my spouse's number is about 400 away from mine, and sometimes she gets the same automated call minutes after me.
Well, from what I can tell, older people are targeted at far high rate. Age seems to be a valued input to the process. I can guess a number of reasons for that.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
From what I can tell, spam calls are mostly war dialing. Some of them are actually going sequentially, my spouse's number is about 400 away from mine, and sometimes she gets the same automated call minutes after me.
Well, from what I can tell, older people are targeted at far high rate. Age seems to be a valued input to the process. I can guess a number of reasons for that.
Does anyone under 50 pick up the phone if they don't know the number that's calling?
Re: Best to avoid using the “Have I been facebooked” website
#9It's kinda crazy how paranoid people have become around stuff like phone numbers. Even if this site were recording the numbers, what good is it?
Your phone number is a short unique identifier for you which follows you around for potentially your entire life, because the hassle of changing it is significant.
I imagine marketers find it significantly more valuable than an email address.
Re: Best to avoid using the “Have I been facebooked” website
#10> The answer is: use HIBP, or https://haveibeenpwned.com/ . They’ve got the technical (and social) bits of this process right! While I'd trust HIBP more it isn't doing anything significantly different with the lookup process, is it? "There's no k-anonymity implementation for phone numbers at this point in time." https://www.troyhunt.com/the-facebook-phone-numbers-are-now-... Putting a number sends it directly in the…
The significant difference to me is you know exactly who is running HIBP, and he is open about what he is doing producing a long blog post about it.