2023-02-17 14:03 UTC
@briankrebs@infosec.exchange The concept of devices having a global contacts list, rather than each app having its own, is just so stupid and ripe for abuse. There are exactly zero times I've wanted to use someone's legacy POTS phone number in a context other than the stock phone/SMS apps (which could & should have been a single unified thing so as not to have to share data).
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@jomo@mstdn.io 2023-02-17 14:08
@dalias@hachyderm.io @briankrebs@infosec.exchange this. It's terrible how you share all contact details, i.e. contact's photo, email address, postal address, etc when you'd just need the phone mumber for contact discovery
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@jernej__s@infosec.exchange 2023-02-17 17:01
@dalias@hachyderm.io @briankrebs@infosec.exchange The problem is that there's an app privilege to access full contact list, instead of an API to have the user choose a specific contact to share with the app on as-needed basis.