Jeremiah GrossmanOvjeren akaunt

There wasn’t a threat model—or business model of threat models—that made phone book data dangerous at the time. That’s what changed.

such as identity theft… or?

It only had ur address, phone#. Not ur ssns, ccn or bank acct#.

True, but also ‘breaches’ don’t always have that data either. Often enough it’s just name, address, phone #, and email address. Which I believe constitues PII.

I don’t know about the US but in the U.K. you could not get included in the phone book very easily. If subsequently your number was given out then it was a big deal. That would be now considered a data breach. I don’t think anything has changed except expectations.

We had the same in the US, but is required a monthly fee paid to the local telco. Expectations changed feels like the right answer. Just not sure why or how it did so.

You surely are trolling... so I'll avoid getting into it!

I’m really not.

You could opt out of the telephone book.

And online, there is no opt-out. I’m not even sure it’s technically possible anymore.