Look Up Unknown Phone Numbers Using Facebook Reset Password
Y'all know we used to publish everybody's phone number in a book along with their address and then distribute copies to every household, right?<p>We did it for many decades and it was fine. Every pay phone, which was a phone anyone with a couple coins could make anonymous calls from, had this giant book right there for your reference. Everyone knows this, right?<p>If you didn't know someone's number you could look it up and call them. They wouldn't have caller ID so you'd identify yourself and then you could talk to them.<p>This was 99.99% of the time not a problem.<p>We need to stop freaking out about a "security vulnerability" that does 1/50th of a system that everyone used mostly without incident for decades.<p>Besides, none of this information is actually private now, it's all still for sale. These companies freak out about this stuff because your data is their product, it's not supposed to be free.