Neodog with Glasses Plushie on Akkoma: "New way to get customer support just dropped", with a screenshot of Hackers News by qingcharles: "One big privacy issue is that there is no sane way to protect your contact details from being sold, regardless of what you do.  As soon as your cousin clicks "Yes, I would like to share the entire contents of my contacts with you" when they launch TikTok your name, phone number, email etc are all in the crowd.  And I buy this stuff. Every time I need customer service and I'm getting stonewalled I just go onto a marketplace, find an exec and buy their details for pennies and call them up on their cellphone. (this is usually successful, but can backfire badly -- CashApp terminated my account for this shenanigans)".
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[–] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

OSINT is the term you're looking for.

Edit: and this particular person was apparently talking about buying the data off signalhire.

OSINT usually consists of collecting all of the publicly available data on a "target" (person or company usually) and correlating it all together to reveal things not explicitly public (or at least not all in one spot). "Open source" intelligence. Term is used by military, intelligence agencies, and pen-testers.

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