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    1 year ago

    To validate that a user is a person. The idea is to trust the phone companies that a person who happens to possess a phone number is actually a person.

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        1 year ago

        I never said it was a good solution. There is no way to trust any validation that a user on the Internet is a person. But this way is cheap easy and most people aren’t gonna go through the effort of masking their identities.

        Also one discrepancy in an audit of a phone number trusted user base sticks out enough for cops to make some progress.