2 posts and columns on phone numbers

Voices

Your Apps Are Watching You

in News on December 18, 2010 at 8:48 am PT

Few devices know more personal details about people than the smartphones in their pockets: phone numbers, current location, often the owner’s real name–even a unique ID number that can never be changed or turned off. These phones don’t keep secrets. They are sharing this personal data widely and regularly, a Wall Street Journal investigation has found.

Mining Email for Contacts

in The Mossberg Solution on April 14, 2009 at 6:00 pm PT

Gwabbit is a tool that automatically hunts through Outlook emails as you receive them, finding contact information that can be “gwabbed” and saved.
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