On 5/18/05, Bill Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://nytimes.com/2005/05/18/technology/18data.html?hp&ex=1116475200&en=7f0572052438ec3b&ei=5094&partner=homepage > > Good NYTimes article on privacy, identity theft, and > easy correlation of data in public records. > Usual Suspect Professor Avi Rubin at Johns Hopkins > has his grad students demonstrating things you can find out. > Betty Ostergren's "Virginia Watchdog" website > http://www.opcva.com/watchdog/ > reinforces complaints about public records privacy > by outing the records of public officials to make her points to them. > > [NYTimes articles usually require free registration; > I'm not sure if there's currently a "cypherpunks" userID there, > but I think some of the strings following the ? in the URL > indicate that you don't need registration if you use this URL..]
there is also 'bugmenot.com', last time i tried it took about the 16th ID, but it worked. -- Michael > > Bill Stewart