On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 09:49:28AM -0800, Kevin Elliott wrote:
| At 12:12 -0500 on 12/31/02, Adam Shostack wrote:
| >Rummaging through my wallet...a grocery card in the name of Hughes, a
| >credit card with the name Shostack, and an expired membership card in
| >the name Doe.
|
| Interesting point on grocery cards... Why do they have your name at
| all? Every grocery card I've ever gotten they've said "here's your
| card and application, please fill out the application and mail it
| in". I say "thank you ma'am", walk out the door and toss the
| "application" in the trash. Not exactly strong (or any) name
| linkage...
Pollution. Cards without names can be purged, cards with names
confuse them. Is that the same Mr. Hughes with Richard Nixon's SSN
who seems to shop vegitarian in San Jose, but buys pork in large
quantities in Oakland? And look, Mr. Clinton here lives at the same
address...
Adam
--
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
-Hume
