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Re: Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

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Post by coralreef »

TylerE wrote: post #79
belluchan wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do not wish they would torrent this. People, think about it. Personal, private phone numbers. Why would you want this information? Seriously the comments here make me sad for humanity right now.

Phone numbers are hardly private information.

Hmm, I somewhat disagree. Private information is anything you don't want public. By protocol, it isn't strictly private. But a phone number is private/unknown until its known, which is how most of us prefer it.

For example, in implicit social code it is impolite to give away a friend's phone number without asking them first.

Re: Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

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Post by Sami_Lehtinen »

alaskamiller wrote: post #104
elnate wrote: post #102

As a casual user, can someone explain the implications for me? They seem to have my username and phone number combo; can they use these for nefarious purposes?

If you're not a hot underage teen girl, then prob not. But now it blows up the spot for where a lot of teens are hanging out. Now it's another step to getting to you if some creep wants to. Or take it to a grander scale, it creates a viable link of who a person and their digital mask is. That's kind of the thing about privacy. It's kind of slipping away, but if you don't care that it is then it's prob cause it doesn'…

If you're playing anonymous, you surely would also use burner phones and not your main phone for that purpose. Same applies to identities, profiles and hardware, any IDs, network connection and so on.

Because if I do have an alias, which is doing very shady things. I would make it pretty sure, it's not going to be that easy to get it. When doing stuff like that you want to be sure that there's "shared nothing" approach. So if they hack your systems, your primary system won't contain any information referring to the shady side and vise versa.

Re: Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

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Post by HNLogInsSuckAss »

chmars wrote: post #116
antimatter15 wrote: post #74

The top comment on Reddit r/netsec's corresponding coverage has mirrors on Mega.co.nz for the files [1] I couldn't find my own data in the set, and actually it seems like lots of entire area codes are missing. Assuming `cat schat.csv | uniq | cut -c1-4 | wc -l` is the proper command, there are only 76 of 322 [2] US area codes represented. It appears there are two Canadian area codes represented in the database: 867 a…

It had never occurred to me that cell phone operators would use area codes. In my small home country, there is basically one 'area code' per cell phone operator. First lesson learnt in 2014! :)

It's even better: The U.S. is so stupid that you have to enter the area code that you're calling, even when your phone is within the same area code.

Re: Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

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Post by rosser »

belluchan wrote: post #20
aabalkan wrote: post #4

It's taking too much time to download each file even they're 40 MB. I wish they put it on as torrent in the first place. Regarding the leak, yeah, that actually happens when you focus on the product but security and reliability of your system. Snapchat, Whatsapp and many others are hacked numerous times and yet it still happens.

I do not wish they would torrent this. People, think about it. Personal, private phone numbers. Why would you want this information? Seriously the comments here make me sad for humanity right now.

Why would you want this information?

Perhaps to see if one's own number is among those leaked?

Re: Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

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Post by arrrg »

chmars wrote: post #116
antimatter15 wrote: post #74

The top comment on Reddit r/netsec's corresponding coverage has mirrors on Mega.co.nz for the files [1] I couldn't find my own data in the set, and actually it seems like lots of entire area codes are missing. Assuming `cat schat.csv | uniq | cut -c1-4 | wc -l` is the proper command, there are only 76 of 322 [2] US area codes represented. It appears there are two Canadian area codes represented in the database: 867 a…

It had never occurred to me that cell phone operators would use area codes. In my small home country, there is basically one 'area code' per cell phone operator. First lesson learnt in 2014! :)

That doesn’t just apply to small countries. I was also unaware that mobile phone numbers could have area codes and I’m from Germany (where each mobile operator has one three digit code – but even that is becoming meaningless with legally required number portability from operator to operator).

Re: Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

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Post by pa5tabear »

stefan_kendall wrote: post #73

This is only useful in wide-net fishing attacks, most of which I'm guessing no one here would fall for. Anyone interested in you particularly will quickly get your phone number, email address, facebook profile, social security number, or whatever they want if they're determined enough. Even then, I'm not sure what information this database really provides that could be used to gain some fraudulent or exploitive benef…

Can you really quickly get a social security number?

Re: Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

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Post by Crito »

akosner wrote: post #110

I have a theory. Last week there was a big story about how Facebook was “dead and buried” because teens didn’t want to be on a service that their parents had moved into. Now, when it comes to security, the parents care a lot more than the kids. Could Snapchat be playing fast and loose with the security of their user data as a way of scaring away the grownups? This would be a clever ploy but for one damning fact. A la…

I have a theory that Mark Zuckerburg, fearing the demise of facebook, had his ninja assassins infiltrate SnapChat and compromised their security, hoping to drive teenagers back into the arms of facebook.

Why is my theory any less loony than yours?

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