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Re:A privacy flaw in Comcast's automated telephone system by diggan on Thursday April 12, 2018 @07:22AM (#16819683)
I'm swedish as well, and explaining this to my wife from Peru was a fun experience. The rest of the world is not as open with neither address information or salary information as Sweden is. If this is good or bad, I'm not sure but it saved me in a number of situations to be able to search for someone's number via a public website.

Keep in mind that the social number in USA is apparently also supposed to be secret (like a password) which sounds absolutely crazy to me.

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Re:A privacy flaw in Comcast's automated telephone system by htgb on Thursday April 12, 2018 @07:35AM (#16819773)
Yeah, I suppose that's right. And as you say, it's very practical.

> Keep in mind that the social number in USA is apparently also supposed to be secret (like a password) which sounds absolutely crazy to me.

That's very true, reminds me of this video [1] by CGP Grey, giving some background of the issue.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erp8IAUouus

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