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Is the assumption that the middle of the phone number area was spliced out for privacy reasons? The article doesn't appear to say...

• dotancohen 5y ago
  Not at all. Nobody was thinking of phone number privacy in 1979. Quite the opposite, at the time we had books - dead trees - of phone numbers complete with names and even physical addresses.
• jbledsoe2112 5y ago
  It was. I guess you didn't read the article?
  • valleyer 5y ago
    Forgive my ignorance: where is it mentioned that the splice was for privacy reasons?
    • jbledsoe2112 5y ago
      In the detailed section towards the bottom.