• @saltesc@lemmy.world
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      1295 days ago

      Our names, numbers, and home addresses used to be in a book delivered to everyone’s door or found stacked in a phone booth on the street. That was normal for generations.

      It’s funny how much fuckwits can change the course of society and how we can’t have nice things.

      • @dmtalon@infosec.pub
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        605 days ago

        Right, but when everyone got phone books, those were only shared locally in the town. It would be pretty hard to figure out someones phone number from across the state/country without the internet unless you knew someone in the town.

        You could also pay to be unlisted, which is a luxury long since gone. How cool would it be to make your data ‘unlisted’ by paying a small monthly fee.

      • Stamets
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        155 days ago

        Still are. I got a phone book delivered a week ago, I shit thee not. Granted I’m on a small island and the book is small too. But like, you can pay to have your number removed from the book. Can you have it removed from this? Not to mention all the 2FA stuff that can be connected to the phone number. Someone clones your number or takes it and suddenly they’ve got access to a whole lot of your login stuff.