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I remember when I was horrified that apps would ask for (or not…) all my contacts.

But then I realized most people on my contacts probably wouldn’t say no so someone could easily use that information to guesstimate my contacts by using everyone else’s contacts.




Did that realisation make you less horrified?


> To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

Frank Herbert

/s/mortality/your information is all over the internet/




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