Phonebooks - eviltoast

I was talking to a coworker about these new phishing attacks that send your name and address and sometimes a picture of your house, and I was saying how creepy it is, and they told me that phonebooks were delivered to everyone and used to have like literally everyone in a city listed by last name with their phone number and address. Is that for real?

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    2 months ago

    See the film, Terminator. It’s how the machine finds women named Sarah Connor. Or maybe that was Kyle Reese. Either way, it was a major plot point.