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Re:‘Anonymous’ Chat App Hijacks Contact Data by jsjohnst on Thursday August 31, 2017 @11:08AM (#15140830)
With a couple GPUs you could find out if there is a collision on phone numbers with truncated hashes pretty quickly. If the phone numbers are normalized, except for a few edge cases, the space is twelve digits which can be naively brute forced. A trillion SHA-1 hashes isn't that hard to do these days.

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