Some random website knows which school i go to, this is the second time i have received this message
Sounds like a really spammy and annoying way to promote an app. I assume someone else who has your phone number signed up on their app and gave access to all their contacts. Then the app sends out spam texts to get you to sign up.
Depending on where you are located, you might be able to report it. Otherwise just drop them a bad review, or name and shame them here
edit, I assume it's this: https://slickapp.co/
The thing is there should be a big fucking warning screen when apps ask for contact permissions saying ‘You are sharing OVERLY sensitive and potentially DANGEROUS data’ and then have the screen wait until 15 sec before they can press OK
But they are reserved for when i am using an adblocker
If you have a normal social life it's honestly expected that a couple of people will leak your phone number (and contact name). Nothing you can really do about it. Happened to me many times.
I suppose I'm lucky I'm not a social person
Leaking it because someone they know personally asks? Sure. But the software side via social networks and other apps can absolutely be nailed down a lot more than it is.
am not wantings to be social anymore
That’s just a fundamental problem with security. You can vault up your home but give your idiot brother in law a key and find the back door wide open, him drunk on the kitchen floor.
Prompts don’t work and aren’t really the right way to go because they are annoying and pretty cryptic as apps often assign a myriad of features to a single permission. Everyone’s just going to hit OK.
It’s a difficult issue to solve because there are so many edge cases. And fundamentally you can’t really control what others do with your number.
Honestly. I wish we started talking about doing away with phone numbers altogether. I feel tech is there. And it’s honestly such a massive fingerprint. I’ve had mine for 20 years ffs.
Yeah. There's literally nothing you can put on a prompt that will truly work. It's still a good idea to prompt cause it will reduce how many people approve the prompt, but there is a significant number of people who don't read prompts at all and just insta-confirm.
At best, I think you could design it so there's no way for an app to request certain permissions themselves. They'd have to be opted in from the system settings and apps could only tell you how to do it. But that's a usability nightmare that is quite frustrating for legitimate usages. There's already some super sensitive permissions that do this. I think the ability to install apps, ability to display over other apps, and password managers for android.
People still wouldn't care. The value of privacy, for one's self or others, has seriously cratered in the last few decades.
My eyes!
I feel like so many shit designs are just an extrapolation on what Dropbox did 6 years ago. Weirdly wide or narrow fonts, weirdly contrasting colors, etc
But this is just worse
It makes those old geocities sites look tasteful by comparison
Their website is slickapp.co (without the m at the end), but their Android package name is com.slickapp.
Isn't that a bit of an issue?
For example, when handling URLs?
Don't most Android packages begin with com. ?
Not really.
Android apps can declare which urls they accept as deep links. Once that is registered with the system (ie after install) then links of that type can be opened by the app. It doesn't have to match the package name.
Yall, high-school yearbooks are public records.
Is there a place you can access these yearbooks, because I'd really like to see mine.
The school you went to will have them on file. Otherwise, there are websites that you can order or view them.
What happens is some kid gets a gossip app which takes their contact data and then uses it to send this shit.
I used to get it pretty often too when I was in school.
This reminds me of the anonymous confession thing that made it's rounds on Facebook several years back. My cousin would post links to his every day with messages like, "Let's see what you've got" or "Give me your worst" attached to it. I suspect he was desperately fishing for compliments, or hoping for anonymous love confessions from the girls he was flirting with, as he would also post scrambled love letters on his wall that he must have figured these girls had time to sit down and eagerly unscramble (ie; I VELO UYO YLSHAE RMOE NTHA HTE UNS VELOS TEH ONOM). I always made sure to anonymously let him know what a stupid, annoying fuck he was being.
If I had a dollar for every stupid thing I've deleted that Facebook has reminded me I posted in high school or college, I'd be debt free.
I'm glad MySpace got nuked and deleted all my old stuff.
Those LinkedIn emails are getting out of hand.
Don't keep us in suspense! What did they say? /s
‘Nice glasses you wear’
Please tell us your address so we can bring relevant offers and products straight to your doorstep
I know what you did last summer...
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Bwahaha! gotcha!
Google your name. There are a bunch of websites that will list your known addresses, affiliates(family or people you have lived with), phone numbers, social media, etc.
That data is collected through various means and then are sold to interested parties.
Generally information gathering from public sources like that is called OSINT in case someone wants to look up more details.
Google will monitor your deets in their search results and let you pull them, though I'm not sure how useful that is to most of the peeps in a privacy community.
2010 Facebook is that you?
As a homeschooled kid, let them come.
They might not know know, but there sure can be a lot of meta data one can use to determine that a person goes to school, where it might be, and what school it most likely is.
Or someone else straight up posted the information publicly. That's always a possibility you have to consider.
Either way, isolating certain websites and services from each other and/or the rest is certainly a good practice to limit what they can gather about you. If you don't do that already, that is.
This is why it's good to be middle-aged. If anyone I know was described as my 'friend in _____ school' without naming them, I'd just assume it was someone I don't remember anyway.
this is the primacy for social security and we are going to cancel your social security if you do not click this link and fill in the information for which is required.
Those goddamned primates always trying to steal people's social security.
Looks like a great way to phising
What kind of phone do you have? Do you use social media? Do you use the same email address everywhere? They don't know anything you didn't willingly give out. It's not a random website, it's a website that bought you via your browsing practices.
This is most likely something that someone else gave out, not OP. Some old school "friend" signed up for some app and shared their phone contacts, app proceeds to spam those contacts hoping for more sign-ups.
The ol' True Caller scam! Don't forget all the people that add email addys to the phones contact list...and then give every app that asks for permissions full roam.
But I'm "paranoid" because 90% of people only get my VoIP number and non important email.
One an occupation or two when I know somebody really sucks I'll give them a forwarder LOL.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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