On Sat, 12 Oct 2019 22:15:19 +0300
Joonas Kylmälä <joonas.kylm...@iki.fi> wrote:

> The phone number lookup service leaks private information so hide the
> option to enable it. The lookup service is by default disabled so this
> guarantees no information gets leaked if the user would accidentally
> enable the service.

What about the following instead:
> Remove phone number lookup settings in the graphical interface
> 
> When enabled, the phone number lookup service was leaking private
> information.
> 
> To prevent that, the following commit disabled it by default and made
> sure that the settings were switched back to disabled:
> de9e5b0 Disable phone number lookup by default for privacy
> 2d8ae47 Disable phone number lookup settings during upgrade
> 
> We then need to remove the phone number lookup service from the
> graphical interface as well: if we don't users could still enable it
> without understanding that it would leak private information to third
> parties.

Denis.

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