 badtripI heart the East BayPremium
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Re: All the disputed requests for anti-terrorism said by Noah Vail:At the moment, I'm not sure you could provide me TK's real name, street address and phone # (and I don't want you to be able to). It'd be kind of tough to get the rest of it without any of that. NV You'd be surprised how easy it would to put together a relatively small set of individuals that could be potential candidates. Then all a person would have to do is some brute force data mining to get whatever data they want.
Many of us have posted enough seemingly innocuous personal data on these forums alone to facilitate such a search.
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| said by badtrip:Many of us have posted enough seemingly innocuous personal data on these forums alone to facilitate such a search. Not necessarily. I've hunted and been hunted enough times that I'm pretty conscious of everything I post. As for my paper trail, I tend to be a bit unconventional.
said by badtrip:Privacy is an illusion. I'm not really a privacy freak. I'm more of a control freak. I have a VoIP phone that less than 10 people have. However my Cell Phone is listed and openly available.
What I crave is a level playing field. You can have all my dirty little secrets as long as I can have yours. The NSA can know everything about me as long as I have a roster of their employees w/ all their personal information.
Interestingly enough I have lots of personal information about other people. I'd rather not, but I do. Some of it comes from people you've heard of.
In the process of helping people manage their data, I see stuff every day. I also manage networks and monitor traffic.
If there is anything I have learned about other people's personal information, it's all really dull. Even if it's interesting, it's dull. For the most part, I don't want to know anything about anybody that they haven't volunteered.
Because of that, I abhor gossip. I shut everybody down - rudely if necessary - if they begin to share someone's personal info, that I'm not entitled to hear.
Well, I enjoyed aimlessly rambling that far off topic.
Now go do something useful with my data and give me a call.
NV
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