Facebook confirms 419m phone numbers exposed in latest privacy lapse

And that’s why any company (especially soofrancisco based ones) asking for my phone number will never get it.

Kek

Literally can't even argue with this

This. Ditto for my real credit card number. Honestly, at this point, there's really no excuse for credit/debit cards not to produce single-use tokens for every transaction IRL.

>.t zoomers
You could opt out of being in the phone book.

My copy/pasta needs an update:

If you are not a terrorist or a pedophile, then you should submit your personal and private information to companies and organizations that want your private data.

When you surrender your private and personal info, you should be at peace knowing that your data is safe and secure. These are banks, hospitals, insurance companies, government departments, and well-known companies like Yahoo and Adobe. They are _sure_ to have great security! Why would you not trust them with your private and personal data? Do you truly and genuinely believe that someone can just hack the US military or UK ministry of defence? LOL! Do you actually consider it possible that someone can hack a multi-billion-dollar company like Equifax, which has tens of thousands of employees and has data on nearly a billion people worldwide?

Do not be alarmed, law-abiding citizen. You will cooperate. Your personal and private information is totally 100% safe and completely and absolutely secure, citizen. There is no cause for concern. Just divulge your personal and private data to us, unless you are a terrorist or a pedophile.

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What happened in the last two years? Things went from bad to much worse! The Equifax leak was one of the biggest, but now it is a medium thing compared to the others.

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You can also opt out of putting your phone number on facebook.

But what are you hiding? Why are you concerned? Only the guilty fear the light.

>Only the guilty fear the light.
Completely and 100% true. And let us be clear: People who refuse to divulge private information are most likely either terrorists or pedophiles.

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Decisions made in the past 20 years that sacrificed security of the users for the ease of the maintainers are coming home to roost. Combine this with the huge resistance many people have to good password practices, and the even bigger resistance to 2FA, and you have a real issue.

Take my parents, in their 60's. I've set them up with Bitwarden on all their phones, tablets, and computers. I've shown them how to use it. Doesn't matter. Every single password is "Burtonwood1!". Their amazon keeps getting "hacked," but beyond the first time, I really don't consider it hacking, as they change the password, forget it, then reset it to "Burtonwood1!" again. Then someone buys a bunch of gift cards, delivers them to a different email address every time, and then my parents call their credit card provider and get the charges reversed. I've offered to set up TOTP multiple times, and they adamantly refuse.

Then what is the government hiding

rekt

Nothing to hide nothing to fear, stop being so paranoid.

Where's the opt out for putting your phone number that you trusted to facebook on the entire internet?

You already dun goofed by that point

You seem to misunderstand. You have to opt in to sharing your phone number. Anything you share with facebook should be considered public knowledge. So if you want to opt out of facebook sharing your data, the way to do that is to never opt in to giving them the data in the first place.

>Fuck off, the phone system is shit and hacked to hell.
sure is.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_System_No._7

What I don't understand is why cell phone companies are so insecure when it comes to shit like SIM Swapping. I mean, they could at least send a code to the owner's email address on record. Alternatively, they could text a code to their own phone, and say that if they don't have it, they need to come into the store and bring government ID.

Literally anything would be better than what they have now, which is nothing.

>What I don't understand is why cell phone companies are so insecure when it comes to shit like SIM Swapping
>Literally anything would be better than what they have now, which is nothing.
ignorance and arrogance on their part. they may have to spend their precious money on improving their own security. avoiding responsibility as much as possible is what they do best.

>Anything you share with facebook should be considered public knowledge
...except the info they promise to keep private and not share with anyone

>save hundreds of millions on security yearly
>pay a few millions when a breach is big enough to be covered by the news every few years
Sounds pretty smart to me. It's not like the customer has a secure option.

They promise to keep it private? What do you mean? Pretty much everything you enter gets posted to your facebook page. Also, at this point, who is dumb enough to actually believe facebook gives a shit about privacy? A lawyer has said, under oath, that there is no privacy and its users have no expectation of privacy.

nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-lawyer-says-there-no-privacy-hinting-challenges-zuckerberg-s-n1012666

>Sounds pretty smart to me. It's not like the customer has a secure option.
quite right, especially when telcos want to live in the 1900s but with 2019 technology.

Any information you share with anyone is public domain.

You have to OPT IN to Facebook. Nobody is forcing you to use your phone number, photos, address or anything even real name. You can literally give them 0 data other than your browser fingerprint ane IP.

Nobody cares.

>How's that different from a phonebook?
Reversing a phonebook is illegal.