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I'm not sure that most people would see taking a copy of their phone contacts as a serious invasion of privacy. Maybe your mind (and the mind of many HN readers
by gnfargbl 5y ago
I'm not sure that most people would see taking a copy of their phone contacts as a serious invasion of privacy. Maybe your mind (and the mind of many HN readers) quickly skips to the various social engineering and metadata attacks that such a dataset could enable, but the average guy on the street is more likely to think "what are you going to do, call my hairdresser?"
- m4rtink 5y agoWith a phone contact book it's not about you, it's about protecting the personal phone numbers others entrusted you with. If you are careless and loose them (for example by using any of these "modern" IM systems that insist on getting all your contacts so you don't have to add people you know one by one) it's you fault friends will be getting advertising phone call at 3 in the morning or worse.
- m463 5y agoI just think they have to be educated.