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A comment on Show HN: Doxx Me – See how doxxable your phone number is.

Re:Show HN: Doxx Me – See how doxxable your phone number is by piscisaureus on Friday July 29, 2022 @01:24PM (#32279620)
Not sure if I agree with the scoring model here.

I tried two phone numbers: my primary cell phone number gets a great 800+ score but reveals an accurate address history of 9 years.

The second one gets a poor score (415), but none of the data is accurate. Have fun: https://gist.github.com/piscisaureus/03d5ebeeb3e77922a858464....

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Re:Show HN: Doxx Me – See how doxxable your phone number is by jimhi on Friday July 29, 2022 @01:28PM (#32279673)
The scoring model is based on how likely you are to be targeted and hacked. Multiple points of data make it exponentially easier to do successfully. So just one address is not always the worst thing. Having tons of data on your phone (even if some of it is inaccurate) may also make you more of a target.
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