Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts, to do data-poisoning

Re:Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts,... by toss1 on Saturday February 27, 2021 @03:42PM (#26287953)

And this tells me that there is a need for another step up for this app - to not only poison the contacts, but to temporarily 1) backup => 2) delete => 2a) share poisoned list => 3) restore contacts.

So we can share the list, but they'll never get our real contacts, only trash data. Enough use it, maybe they'll stop

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Re:Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts,... by a3n on Saturday February 27, 2021 @05:16PM (#26288680)

But wouldn't this company have to periodically review your contacts, to slurp up new ones?

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Re:Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts,... by toss1 on Saturday February 27, 2021 @05:43PM (#26288847)

Yup, probably their next move would be to require constant access to contacts list and check whenever the app runs.

The next move on this side would be to keep contacts in a separate app from the std Android/Apple app, and then have to make calls, texts, etc. from there.

If only there weren't so many sociopaths running these companies... sorry, wrong planet

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