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It's disgusting that this comment had to be vouched for, it's common sense.
I downvoted and flagged it. It's low-effort bait.
WhatsApp data leak: 500M user records for sale
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#32The norm for personal communications really ought to shift to a new protocol that doesn't expose phone numbers. It would be nice if I had a list of people who have my contact added and just remove their ability to do so without my consent. It would solve security, privacy, telemarketing, all sorts of nuisances.
Hm. I could write it down.
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#33I only leaked 32000 ;-)
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#34The norm for personal communications really ought to shift to a new protocol that doesn't expose phone numbers. It would be nice if I had a list of people who have my contact added and just remove their ability to do so without my consent. It would solve security, privacy, telemarketing, all sorts of nuisances.
signal does what you say and keep the convience of connecting people via phone numbers, if you optin.
but they still have a closed server... so who knows what really is logged where.
still infinitely better than whatsbook/telegram/appleID/google/microsoft alternatives
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#35I really need to figure out how to save off all the pictures and videos from WhatsApp iOS so I can uninstall it.
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Assume your name, phone, email, address are all public. Someone on HN will invariably point out that this is how it was for the last hundred years, and it was only when we made computers powerful enough to abuse the information that this level of privacy became a concern. I remember the days when your name, address, and phone number were public information. I paid something like $15/month to keep it out of the phone…
In Sweden almost everything about you is public information. Your address, social security number, tax records, criminal record etc.
Out of curiosity: does this lead to more identity theft (or misuse)?
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Assume your name, phone, email, address are all public. Someone on HN will invariably point out that this is how it was for the last hundred years, and it was only when we made computers powerful enough to abuse the information that this level of privacy became a concern. I remember the days when your name, address, and phone number were public information. I paid something like $15/month to keep it out of the phone…
In Sweden almost everything about you is public information. Your address, social security number, tax records, criminal record etc.
To be honest, that's close to how it should be in an ideal world. But US companies went down the obviously-moronic path of treating social security numbers as passwords and now we're stuck.
Eventually the bulk of the world will probably end up with some sort of government-managed crypto-ID, but it's sure going to take the US a long time to get there.
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#38>To prevent personal data leaks, regular users should adopt common data security practices. This includes using a high-quality VPN and getting a reliable antivirus program. And since the shopping holidays are close, you can already find great market-leading NordVPN Black Friday and TotalAV deals. What a disgusting site... Adding this blurb to a "news" article with "security measures" that do absolutely nothing agains…
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#39I really need to figure out how to save off all the pictures and videos from WhatsApp iOS so I can uninstall it.
Export each (or the most important) chats as zip files.
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> this is not significant at all. I wonder if HN community would say same if Telegram data was leaked in a similar way
I might be missing something here. Why would HN care any differently about WhatsApp vs Telegram?
Probably he is referring to that WhatsApp is from a US company vs telegram with Russian origin.