Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts, to do data-poisoning
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Re: Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts, to do data-poisoning
#2Imagine if your fake contact's randomly created email or phone number is on a terror watch list.
Re: Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts, to do data-poisoning
#3Imagine if your fake contact's randomly created email or phone number is on a terror watch list.
The documentation states that it uses a non-allocated country code (+21). So it seems unlikely to happen.
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#4Re: Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts, to do data-poisoning
#5Imagine if your fake contact's randomly created email or phone number is on a terror watch list.
I think that's exactly the point
of this. I remember people on Usenet posting random shit like "construct bomb kill president" when the news about Echelon came out.
Re: Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts, to do data-poisoning
#6This makes me wonder if anyone has set up canary emails or phone numbers in their phone contacts.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
The documentation states that it uses a non-allocated country code (+21). So it seems unlikely to happen.
Doesnt this defeat the purpose tho as it could be filtered?
The us government monitored all DC residents personal communication for over 2 years because they fat fingered the collection regex. The country code for Egypt is +20, the DC area code is 202.
Re: Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts, to do data-poisoning
#9Clubhouse requires contact list in order to get invites, which are required to sign up right now.
I get why they are doing this, and it caused me to share my contacts with them.
However, I resented it and it put me immediately in a defensive posture with the product and company.
There is no possible way to trust a company with your contact list and Apple should make it how Photos works now--where you can select which data to share. There are some folks I don't even want to possibly find in a social app.
Re: Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts, to do data-poisoning
#10This makes me wonder if anyone has set up canary emails or phone numbers in their phone contacts.
The robocall epidemic has pretty much made the notion of "canary phone numbers" useless.