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Where in the world can you buy information like that? Seems incredible that something like that exists

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qingcharles 3y ago
SignalHire was the one I used recently, and Jigsaw was the one before. Basically whenever a friend of yours installs some shitty free app on their phone and it demands to exfiltrate all their contacts your email address and phone numbers get scooped up and sold to the highest bidder. You can guarantee Tim Cook has a bunch of friends, grandmas, etc that have no idea how to use their phones and have 400 apps installed all syphoning off Tim's contact details.
- qup 3y ago
  This comment caused me to run a thought experiment about how many grandmas a person can have. I decided the answer is exactly as you described: a bunch.
- FirmwareBurner 3y ago
  > You can guarantee Tim Cook has a bunch of friends, grandmas, etc that have no idea how to use their phones and have 400 apps installed all syphoning off Tim's contact details But how do those apps know it's THE Tim Cook and not one of dozens of other guys named Tim Cook? Also, what if, and this is usually the case, most people don't have you as "Tim Cook" in their phonebooks, but as "Big Baws", "Honey Bunny" or "Timmeh 12 inches uncut"?
  - joshmanders 3y ago
    > But how do those apps know it's THE Tim Cook and not one of dozens of other guys named Tim Cook? Also, what if, and this is usually the case, most people don't have you as "Tim Cook" in their phonebooks, but as "Big Baws", "Honey Bunny" or "Timmeh 12 inches uncut"? If a lot of people have that same phone number in their contacts but only a handful have it as "Big Baws", "Honey Bunny" or "Timmeh 12 inches uncut" but do have as Tim Cook, or even have his job description, email address and other stuff attached to it too, it's safe to say it's a dead ringer to be Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, Inc.
  - soundarana 3y ago
    You can do network analysis. He should appear in the contact list of relevant people (Apple employees, press, ...)
    - FirmwareBurner 3y ago
      Good point.

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SignalHire was the one I used recently, and Jigsaw was the one before. Basically whenever a friend of yours installs some shitty free app on their phone and it demands to exfiltrate all their contacts your email address and phone numbers get scooped up and sold to the highest bidder. You can guarantee Tim Cook has a bunch of friends, grandmas, etc that have no idea how to use their phones and have 400 apps installed all syphoning off Tim's contact details.

qup 3y ago
This comment caused me to run a thought experiment about how many grandmas a person can have. I decided the answer is exactly as you described: a bunch.
FirmwareBurner 3y ago
> You can guarantee Tim Cook has a bunch of friends, grandmas, etc that have no idea how to use their phones and have 400 apps installed all syphoning off Tim's contact details But how do those apps know it's THE Tim Cook and not one of dozens of other guys named Tim Cook? Also, what if, and this is usually the case, most people don't have you as "Tim Cook" in their phonebooks, but as "Big Baws", "Honey Bunny" or "Timmeh 12 inches uncut"?
- joshmanders 3y ago
  > But how do those apps know it's THE Tim Cook and not one of dozens of other guys named Tim Cook? Also, what if, and this is usually the case, most people don't have you as "Tim Cook" in their phonebooks, but as "Big Baws", "Honey Bunny" or "Timmeh 12 inches uncut"? If a lot of people have that same phone number in their contacts but only a handful have it as "Big Baws", "Honey Bunny" or "Timmeh 12 inches uncut" but do have as Tim Cook, or even have his job description, email address and other stuff attached to it too, it's safe to say it's a dead ringer to be Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, Inc.
- soundarana 3y ago
  You can do network analysis. He should appear in the contact list of relevant people (Apple employees, press, ...)
  - FirmwareBurner 3y ago
    Good point.