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Re: Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

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Post by Crito »

Sami_Lehtinen wrote: post #132
alaskamiller wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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" approa…

> If you're playing anonymous, you surely would also use burner phones and not your main phone for that purpose.

We are talking about teenagers sending pictures to each other, not weed dealers in a prohibition state.

Re: Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

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Post by thirsteh »

pa5tabear wrote: post #139
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?

"I'm glad to let you know that you qualify for X healthcare coverage. Can I just have your social security number and we'll send over the confirmation documents?"

Yes, people fall for this kind of stuff all the time.

Re: Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

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Post by [deleted] »

Sami_Lehtinen wrote: post #132
alaskamiller wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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" approa…

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Re: Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

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Post by babby »

cenhyperion wrote: post #103
babby wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Why would you want this information? >Hacker News >Hacker

That's not really the definition of hacker in regards to hacker news. http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker.html

I'm implying that no real hacker sees such information as "off limits", especially when it's in such a readily, publicly available form.

Re: Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

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Post by jpalomaki »

sschueller wrote: post #144

I still don't understand why you would turn down $3 billion. How will you ever make money with snapchat and how is it not a fad that will eventually die?

Was it 3bn cash or 3bn with some conditions? Maybe they have already made enough money (or are confident they will) and now want to get their name into history by building great company.

Re: Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

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Post by riffraff »

aheilbut wrote: post #142

I guess I'm dating myself, but didn't we used to call that the phone book?

at some point people started thinking that mobile phones somehow need to be more personal than land lines.

In the specific case though, it's as if you had already asked to be removed from the phone book (implicitly trusting the company), and then your number was published anyway.

Re: Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

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Post by rmc »

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.

Disagree. I suspect they would fall under personal data in the European Union under the Data Protection Directive.

Re: Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

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Post by [deleted] »

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! :)

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