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So let us say I go to some page which lists some "potentially well off" folks, like this one: https://github.com/orgs/google/people https://github.com/orgs/goo
by bubble_talk 7y ago
So let us say I go to some page which lists some "potentially well off" folks, like this one:
https://github.com/orgs/google/people https://github.com/orgs/google/people
or this:
https://github.com/orgs/microsoft/people https://github.com/orgs/microsoft/people
or even this :-)
https://github.com/orgs/facebook/people https://github.com/orgs/facebook/people
Given GitHub actually even provides a convenient, public, unauthenticated API, it makes it even more easy:
https://api.github.com/orgs/facebook/public_members https://api.github.com/orgs/facebook/public_members
And then I match it with their personal phone numbers in the dataset (apparently its now offline, but maybe another one will reappear at some point).
And then I can just call these phone numbers and sell them stuff? And its perfectly OK because even if a dataset like this goes into the wild it acts as nothing more than "just a phone book"?
- wodenokoto 7y agoCouldn’t you already match those lists against the phone book?
- cmbailey 7y agoCellphone numbers do not appear in regular phone books.
- keymone 7y agoWhat’s a phone book?
- paulddraper 7y agoIf you knew their locality.
- iyw 7y agonull comment
- lovecg 7y agoYeah but who answers calls from unknown numbers anymore? It’s pretty much 99% spam already.
- davinic 7y agoBut if you can see any of their Facebook friends, just look up one of their cell number and spoof it when you make the call.