I Shared My Phone Number. I Learned I Shouldn’t Have.

Our personal tech columnist asked security researchers what they could find out about him from just his cellphone number. Quite a lot, it turns out.

nytimes.com/2019/08/15/technol

I suggest obtaining a VoIP number like Google Voice or similar and using that to provide to any public requests instead of your cell or home phone.

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