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Stop Treating Phone Numbers As A Digital ID
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this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2025
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Technology exists to keep all your personal data exceptionally secure. Modern encryption is incredibly difficult to break (impossible really).
Humans are fundamentally insecure. Any time you read about a data leak, it's because somebody stupidly opened an attachment or fell for a scam. Any time someone gets "hacked," they didn't. They gave away their information. Human error and a lack of education are the problems.
While I also disagree with the claim that technology is "fundamentally" insecure, it's unfortunately not that often made by smart and caring people.