> We generate every valid 7-digit North American phone number, then for every area code, send every number in batches of 40000
> Time to go do something else for a while. Just over 27 hours and one ill-fated attempt at early season ski touring later, the script has finished happily, the logfile is full of entries, and no request has failed or taken longer than 3 seconds. So much for rate limiting. We’ve leaked every Freedom Chat user’s phone number
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46279123
[2025-12-10]
> We generate every valid 7-digit North American phone number, then for every area code, send every number in batches of 40000
> Time to go do something else for a while. Just over 27 hours and one ill-fated attempt at early season ski touring later, the script has finished happily, the logfile is full of entries, and no request has failed or taken longer than 3 seconds. So much for rate limiting. We’ve leaked every Freedom Chat user’s phone number