ResearchBuzz: FirehoseGizmodo: Danish Privacy Activist Arrested for Posting Prime Minister’s Phone Number. “Danish right-wing privacy activist Lars Kragh Andersen posted a video Friday of his arrest by police in Denmark—a video that has now racked up over 8 million views on X. Andersen says he was arrested for posting his two favorite numbers, the social security number of Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/25/gizmodo-danish-privacy-activist-arrested-for-posting-prime-ministers-phone-number/
Netzblockierer@monniele no, phone numers are NOT anonymous.
Even if you don't have to self-dox for "KYC" bs, they are at best pseudonymous and thus correlation by location, time and date makes it trivial to deanonymize users.
- And that's just what the Advertising Industry in the USA can do.
- We don't even talk about Law Enforcement (and Skiddies that know how to do Social Hacking) or Intelligence Agencies…
So don't spread such life-threatening disinformation that could've been disproven with a single web search…
#phoneNumbers #Privacy #Anonymity #KYC #Pseudonymous #Correlation #AdvertisingIndustry #Tracking #Malware #Govware #USA #Disinformation #OpSec #ComSec #InfoSec
How They Tracked the Trump Shooter's Phone
@phalanx @mysk or to put it simple:
You trust noone!
Espechally not @signalapp which demand Phone Numbers, and thus can trivially help in deanonymizing and localizing users.
- They shouldn't have that info to begin with, as there's no "legitimate reason" to mandate it, much less to collect and store it on aws!
- As more and more juristictions literally outlaw anonymous [Prepaid-]SIMs [even retroactively!] they enable themselves to supporting "Murder by Metadata"
#Signal #trust #TrustNoone #PhoneNumbers #PII #Anonymity #deanonymization #doxxing #LegitimateInterest #FalsePretense #aws #privacy #SIM #SimCard #KYC #prepaid #Metadata #OpSec #RedFlag #HoneyPot
Former NSA & CIA director 'We kill people based on metadata'
Tech-Illiterate people seem to be absolute idiots when it comes to ComSec, and TechLiterates groom them into ignorance, making it even worse!
- Regardless if AIM, ICQ, Sky ECC, EncroChat, ANØM, Skype, WhatsApp or Signal.
All you guys literally providing trivial means to track and trace users should be ashamed!
- There was no "legitimate reason" to demand PII like a phone number in 2010, there certainly ain't one in 2026!
Use XMPP+OMEMO and/or PGP/MIME and stop being unofficial informants for the Americal Stasi, dipshits!
- Or does anyone believe that Signal will cover your asses? They can't even pay their bills, decentralize and get off AWS!
#rant #venting #sarcasm #commentary #TechIlliterates #TechIlliteracy #TechLiterates #TechIlliterates #AIM #ICQ #SkyECC #EncroChat #ANØM #Skype #WhatsApp #Signal #LegitimateInterest #KYC #privacy #PII #tracking #PhoneNumber #PhoneNumbers #XMPP #OMEMO #PGP #NSA #AmericanStasi #UnofficialInformant #Stasi #Privacy #Encryption #E2EE #SelfCustody #aws #unsustainable
9to5 Google: Google accounts no longer get 15GB of free storage, only 5GB until you link a phone number. “Google has made a notable change to its account storage policy, limiting the usual 15GB of free storage only to accounts that are verified with a phone number.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/15/9to5-google-google-accounts-no-longer-get-15gb-of-free-storage-only-5gb-until-you-link-a-phone-number/
9to5 Google: Google accounts no longer get 15GB of free storage, only 5GB until you link a phone number
9to5 Google: Google accounts no longer get 15GB of free storage, only 5GB until you link a phone number. “Google has made a notable change to its account storage policy, limiting the usual 15…
MIT Technology Review: AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers. “In March, a software developer in Israel was contacted on WhatsApp after Google’s chatbot Gemini provided incorrect customer service instructions that included his number. And in April, a PhD candidate at the University of Washington was messing around on Gemini and got it to cough up her colleague’s personal […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/14/mit-technology-review-ai-chatbots-are-giving-out-peoples-real-phone-numbers/
A Guy Named Brian (he/him)Yes please! (And thanks to @gruber for pointing this out.)
“Apple should update the formatting … and turn phone numbers with the area code in parentheses into the 123-555-1234 format. It’s only because area codes used to be optional that they were put in parentheses. Given that 7-digit dialing is never going to return, we should abolish the parentheses too.”
#APStyleGuide #PhoneNumbers #Formatting #Apple #AppleContacts
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/04/16/how-to-format-10-digit-phone-numbers
Radio New Zealand: Timaru cafe inundated with calls after AI tool lists phone number for hospital . “Google’s Gemini Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool had been offering up the phone number for Sopheze Coffee Lounge when people searched for Timaru Hospital. Sopheze Coffee Lounge manager Vanessa Keen said the problem started about six weeks ago.” Good grief.
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/15/radio-new-zealand-timaru-cafe-inundated-with-calls-after-ai-tool-lists-phone-number-for-hospital/
Radio New Zealand: Timaru cafe inundated with calls after AI tool lists phone number for hospital
Radio New Zealand: Timaru cafe inundated with calls after AI tool lists phone number for hospital . “Google’s Gemini Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool had been offering up the phone num…
F3715HThe use of #NoReply addresses ( and #ShortCodes instead of #PhoneNumbers ) should be illegal as in:
- Lifetime ban for using Computers and Phones
- Life no less than 25 years of jail
If you - as a business or organization - can send me a message, you owe me the ability to reply to you in the same way.
- If you can't even be assed to add a "reply-to" address, I consider you a spammer.
#rant #venting #sarcasm #JobSearch #eMail #Phone #NoReplyAddress
Rene RobichaudSubstack Newsletter Platform Data Breach Saw Phone Numbers, Emails Exposed
https://www.pcmag.com/news/substack-newsletter-platform-data-breach-saw-phone-numbers-emails-exposed
#Infosec #Security #Cybersecurity #CeptBiro #Substack #DataBreach #PhoneNumbers #Emails