"Is your smartphone telling every website you visit your telephone number?"
"O2 mobile users in the UK are venting on Twitter today, fuming at their discovery that their phone number is being shared with every website that they visit over the network."
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including the suggestion: "If you want to know if your smartphone is revealing your phone number when you browse websites, you can test for yourself by visiting this demo page by Collin Mulliner:
Cheers, -- tlvp
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My Android 2.2 phone tests ok on that site, no HTTP headers with the phone number.
-- Regards, David.
David Clayton Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Knowledge is a measure of how many answers you have, intelligence is a measure of how many questions you have.
Non-Android LG CU-400 tests OK too, both the inbuilt browser, and the J2ME-based Opera mini-browser I added in as an aftermarket afterthought.
Cheers, -- tlvp
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