Dario examines how researchers exploited a weakness in WhatsApp's contact discovery to enumerate 3.5 billion phone numbers – along with profile photos and "about" text for hundreds of millions of users. He explains why phone numbers make poor identifiers at global scale, what this means for privacy and security across the mobile ecosystem, and why WhatsApp's move toward usernames matters.

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