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Again, hashing won't do much except make you feel fuzzy inside. Since the hashing mechanism is stored on the phone and the possibility space for US phone numbers is extremely limited, it'd be trivial to hash all possible numbers and then do a reverse lookup of the hashed values of your stolen address books.



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