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Re: Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

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Post by twistedpair »

X4 wrote: post #151
jkelsey wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Still too early to make those types of statements. I think it mostly depends on how much the media plays this up.

we are kind of the media.. and reddit is too.. I also believe that they made a fatal error by not selling everything for $3bn then jumping aboard. To not have anything to do with the "soon to come security issues". I mean they could have mentioned it and downplay it as they did just recently. I don't think that the new owner would take security more serious than them. For us it was really really good that he rejected…

> Because otherwise we would see the trade market crash $3bn A sale of SC hurts all other companies in the market? Hard to understand this posit.

Re: Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

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Post by fat0wl »

igorgue wrote: post #184
mfreeman451 wrote: post #168

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1.805.250.1351

You guys are huge cock suckers... You just upvoted a database leaking millions of people's phone number but when somebody posts Zuck's phone number... Oh no! You should delete that. He's not a king guys.

like other people are saying -- HN is news by committee. just try to post a joke on here one day & see how many rapid downvotes it gets if you ever need proof of how lame & uptight the HN crowd can be once they hit that 500 rep.

i posted a joke on a comment of someone going "This. A million times this." the other day cuz that is the most melodramatic, overused, annoying, lame textual meme... the joke was pretty innocuous & immediately got like 5 downvotes.

I don't mean to hate too hard cuz it is what it is, i dont care about my karma, & obv its good enough that i still read articles here but posters being annoying/hypocritical/oversensitive/humourless/feeling that they are the protectors of society... very common on HN. I think it is some facet of the nature of people thinking they are real sophisticated by reading HN for some odd reason (basing this on all the wannabe devs I know on social sites who make it a point to mention it constantly in posts like "my fav sites to procrastinate on"), whereas there are lots of higher-level programming communities out there who seem to have less of this self-seriousness.

that said, occasionally there is that nice moment of a few reasonable people chatting each other & introducing to tech they may have otherwise overlooked. I'm heavy into Clojure & the other day a Lisper on here pointed me to freenode to get community help rather than SO, for example. It's all percentages, I guess :-/

Re: Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

#193

Post by seldo »

igorgue wrote: post #184
mfreeman451 wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1.805.250.1351

You guys are huge cock suckers... You just upvoted a database leaking millions of people's phone number but when somebody posts Zuck's phone number... Oh no! You should delete that. He's not a king guys.

And while we're here, "cock sucker" is not an insult, and my fellow gay hackers and I would prefer if you didn't use it as one.

Re: Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

#194

Post by whalesalad »

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…

Bummer that Hawaii is not in the DB. For once I was actually hoping to see my data leaked somewhere aside from the Adobe incident. Dangit.

Re: Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

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Post by thezilch »

seldo wrote: post #193
igorgue wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You guys are huge cock suckers... You just upvoted a database leaking millions of people's phone number but when somebody posts Zuck's phone number... Oh no! You should delete that. He's not a king guys.

And while we're here, "cock sucker" is not an insult, and my fellow gay hackers and I would prefer if you didn't use it as one.

And we wonder why no women are in tech...

Re: Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

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Post by vikp »

xixixao wrote: post #138
vikp wrote: post #108

I made a site to check if you are affected by this leak: http://www.snapcheck.org . Happy new year, everyone (although on a bad note...)

This would be perfect for completing the database .)

I just open sourced the code: https://github.com/VikParuchuri/snapcheck . Can verify, nothing tricky going on.

Re: Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

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Post by asnyder »

eli wrote: post #181
aheilbut wrote: post #142

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

Setting aside the privacy of cell versus landline numbers, the phone book never had anything analogous to a Snapchat user name.

Yeah, it had your actual name AND your address.

Re: Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

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Post by eli »

asnyder wrote: post #197
eli wrote: post #181

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Setting aside the privacy of cell versus landline numbers, the phone book never had anything analogous to a Snapchat user name.

Yeah, it had your actual name AND your address.

I strongly disagree that your street address being linked to your name is the same as your pseudonymous snapchat username being linked to your cell phone number.
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