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You can just iterate thru all possible phone numbers. It’s not that large, which is why anyone saying they are hashing your contacts to keep them private isn’t
by azinman2 6y ago
You can just iterate thru all possible phone numbers. It’s not that large, which is why anyone saying they are hashing your contacts to keep them private isn’t doing a lot of good.
- Twisell 6y agoStill maybe from a legal standpoint and depending on countries it'll be better to download and locally test against a hashed set than to download the dump. An adequately hashed set can be proved to be harmless because you can't revert to real data (as far as you know when downloading). Downloading the original set could be considered malicious by some governments (but idk/ not sure ianal).