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Re:Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool by digi_owl on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @12:27PM (#17708052)
Similarly it took effort to look up random numbers in phone books. Few if any were ever printed in a way that made it easy to to from number to name, only name to number.
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Re:Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool by snark42 on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @02:26PM (#17709202)
> Few if any were ever printed in a way that made it easy to to from number to name

Law enforcement, most libraries and other phone companies always had access to public printed reverse number phone books in the late 1980-1990's.

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Re:Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool by digi_owl on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @05:27PM (#17710986)
Point taken, not familiar any libraries that was large enough to have such items shelved.
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