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The article only seems to suggest you matched names to phone numbers by googling or paying to look them up, I read nothing about meta research of putting togeth
by dobbsbob 13y ago
The article only seems to suggest you matched names to phone numbers by googling or paying to look them up, I read nothing about meta research of putting together profiles of people based on data/sms traffic and calls they received.
A future project you guys should attack Basebands and see what kind of evil you can do because our govts are already doing it to track us
- NSA_Research 13y agoThe reporting on our work has been of mixed quality. Check out our actual blog-post here: http://webpolicy.org/2013/12/23/metaphone-the-nsas-got-your-number/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=metaphone-the-nsas-got-your-number http://webpolicy.org/2013/12/23/metaphone-the-nsas-got-your-... for more accurate details. We used data collected from voluntary users' phone logs as our phone number data set. This means that if Joe called number X a few weeks ago and then decided to participate in our study, number X was in our database. We then used a couple techniques too see how well we could identify who number X belonged to. We didn't put together actual profiles of users, though that is a possible next step. However, I think it is clear that putting together profiles of users is possible given how easy it is to identify who you are calling and receiving calls from.