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Re:Supreme Court sides with Facebook in narrowing the federa... by chiefalchemist on Friday April 02, 2021 @12:15PM (#26672765)
Perhaps. But when a phone # gets entered then FB should authenticate it on the spot. Then someone else can't use your number nefariously.

As it is, couldn't this be FB more or less phishing? That is, baiting non-users to register? Certainly, such tactics have been used with email. Why not SMS?

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Re:Supreme Court sides with Facebook in narrowing the federa... by ipsum2 on Friday April 02, 2021 @09:58PM (#26677833)
In another article, I believe it said that the phone number was recycled from an actual user.
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