If you have wondered just how much tracking is possible with just a phone number, you don’t have to wonder anymore: you can just head to ProxyEarth, a rogue website set up by one Rakesh. It is also an example of just what is possible when someone gets into the telecom infrastructure, or when telecom infrastructure is left insecure.

There is a website called ProxyEarth that is leaking location details, including possibly live location, of phone users in India. All you have to do is put in the phone number into the website, and the website reveals details. Sometimes, using triangulation data from telecom towers, it even reveals the live location of a phone user. It is eerily accurate, and scary in its scope.

The website that surfaced a few days ago — we wrote about it here and here — i

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