[happyopossum]

> and acquire a new phone number

> Wikipedia of all places already employed IP address matching to link sockpuppet accounts

That’s… well, that’s just not how tcp/ip works. Your phone number has nothing to do with your device IP…

[beachy]

It does when your phone number is used for 2fa in a session running on tcp/ip

[mschuster91]

Phone numbers are available to many apps if they target older SDK versions and serve as an additional unique identifier.