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It's not just O2 in the UK. This happens all over the place. See this talk done in 2010: http://mulliner.org/security/httpheaderprivacy.php

It mentions: Orange (UK), Rogers (Canada), H3G (Italy), Vodafone/BILDmobil (Germany), Pelephone (Israel), and on and on...




Three (UK) don't do it, and it's worth also noting that @O2 has been in overdrive about trying to contain the twitter outrage. Good to see a large corp paying attention for once.


Have you examined all the Three headers to ensure that they are not sending a hashed version of the phone number?


The headers I can see (from my iPhone on three) are very minimal and don't include anything that look like they could be a hashed phone number.


None of the ones listed on the lew.io website seemed to include a phone number hash, but I only glanced at it quickly.


Three's headers contain my phone make and model as a wap profile header - nothing personal apart from that.


Just tested this on SGSII and can confirm the same.




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