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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • At least in America often the top-tier phones will get the best deals. An example is various carriers a few times a year will give you a new iPhone or Galaxy for free or low cost if you trade in an iPhone or Galaxy (often running promos even taking outdated and broken handsets Example Verizon iPhone 15 Pro deal). Very often budget handsets get little to no subsidy and worse trade-in deals. How many people facing the option of trading in a broken phone for a free high end model, or getting enough trade in value to buy a cheaper basic handset, would not choose and iPhone Pro Max.






  • The honest truth is you would have to be one of those in the woods off the grid types to actually protect yourself. For example, many utilities will require an SSN or SIN to credit check you along with obviously your name and service address. They obviously do not do that in house so they goto third parties (like the guys you mentioned) who keep troves of this information on file and swap information amongst themselves when beneficial. Considering that about half of the world’s adult age people may be in this list I would say there is more than a decent chance you are in this breach and probably have been part of others.

    Also this is just one attack vector, there always exist other methods such as just paying someone with “authorization” for your data, be it a credit agency through deceit, a private investigator who does no vetting, or just bribing a government official/police officer.