Have I Been Facebooked?

Re:Have I Been Facebooked? by neogodless on Monday April 05, 2021 @07:30PM (#26706034)

My phone number is a 10-digit number, the first 3 of which are an area code. It gets spam calls and texts (though that miraculously decreased on November 4th...) as it is. Now, combined with browser fingerprinting, perhaps this site can tie my specific 10-digit number to some other aspects of who I am, but I'll leave that part as an exercise for a willing volunteer. I'm not terribly concerned about entering my phone number, disconnected from other identifying information, into a random web site.

Convince me why I should be!

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Re:Have I Been Facebooked? by omgJustTest on Monday April 05, 2021 @07:44PM (#26706146)

TFA? If there is ever an exploit on phone codes, it will be massive. I removed my phone number as a TFA from most services within the last few days.

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Re:Have I Been Facebooked? by deeblering4 on Monday April 05, 2021 @09:40PM (#26707043)

2 factor sms authentication

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Re:Have I Been Facebooked? by peteretep on Monday April 05, 2021 @10:38PM (#26707399)

1 factor of 2 factor auth is completely useless without any identity to tie it to

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Re:Have I Been Facebooked? by deeblering4 on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @07:48AM (#26710714)

we’re talking about the facebook data leak that associates a number to an identity.

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Re:Have I Been Facebooked? by peteretep on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @08:37AM (#26711030)

We’re talking about a website that allows you to enter a number to see if it’s in a leak.

People are saying you shouldn’t put a number in there because if it’s not already in there, you are leaking some kind of privileged information.

That’s not true.

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Re:Have I Been Facebooked? by deeblering4 on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @04:18PM (#26716859)

If that's the case then please go ahead and post a comment containing your full phone number

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Re:Have I Been Facebooked? by peteretep on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @07:27PM (#26718629)

If I posted it as a comment, it would be tied to my identity.

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Re:Have I Been Facebooked? by welder on Friday April 09, 2021 @01:01AM (#26746897)

It's super easy to find your identity from just your IP. I can't remember the service that does it... maybe drift.com?

So putting your phone into a website also ties it to your identity.

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Re:Have I Been Facebooked? by imgabe on Monday April 05, 2021 @11:42PM (#26707747)

Knowing the phone number doesn't mean you can get the texts that are sent to it.

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Re:Have I Been Facebooked? by welder on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @12:01AM (#26707831)

Don't be so sure https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26468892

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Re:Have I Been Facebooked? by GormHouj on Monday April 05, 2021 @09:44PM (#26707068)

The commenter is leery of entering their phone number into the article link.

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