> Basic maths should tell you that the probability of matching some real phone number is actually quite high. Yeah well, the thing about pressure (of the sort

> Basic maths should tell you that the probability of matching some real phone number is actually quite high. Yeah well, the thing about pressure (of the sort the author has describing) is that you make mistakes - the kind where some times 3+3 = 9. Source: I queued jobs to nuke the whole production database (relax, we had automated backups+verification so we recovered fast enough; and then added some gating so make this more difficult in the future)