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		samus on Jan 13, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Attack of the Week: Airdrop Tracing The likelyhood of you ever receiving a random SMS without somehow giving away your number is very low.

gruez on Jan 13, 2024 [–]

You never got robo-dialed or text spam?

samus on Jan 13, 2024 | [–]

I assume my number was somehow leaked. While the search space is not prohibitively big for an exhaustive search, I don't think it's a common thing to do since I don't get nearly enough robocalls or messages to assume that.

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