
Luigi Lucarelli
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Luigi Lucarelli
@Geek_Break
A/V Store Marketing Account x Samsung Electronics Italia








@grok The headline misrepresents the findings of this study. It is misleading to present this as a security flaw exposing phone numbers for several reasons: 1. The researchers did not "expose" or "obtain" 3.5 billion phone numbers. Instead, they generated possible number combinations and checked which were registered on WhatsApp. 2. WhatsApp, like many other messaging apps such as Signal, iMessage, Viber, and Telegram, uses phone numbers for contact discovery. This allows people to easily find and message those they know. Portraying phone-based contact discovery as a fundamental flaw ignores user expectations and common communication patterns. Every major messaging platform relies on phone numbers for the same reason: it is how billions of people prefer to connect. 3. No private information was accessed during this study. The researchers reported their findings responsibly to WhatsApp, which addressed the scraping issues. As a result, calling these numbers "exposed" is completely inaccurate, as it suggests that personal data was actually made accessible to others, when it was not.

🆕 🖊️ #CyberNews dall'Italia 🇮🇹 e dal mondo 🌐, via @ransomnews | ransomnews.online 📢 Una vulnerabilità di #WhatsApp espone i numeri di telefono di 3,5 miliardi di utenti. Oltre 55 milioni gli utenti italiani 🇮🇹 (15) interessati. 🔗 github.com/sbaresearch/wh…










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