What's getting interesting is the ease of access. Sure you could go to
the courthouse, root around in the basement property books and lookup
what somebody paid for their house and such, but who has time to be that
nosy. Now with property and tax records online, if I know your address I
can find out what you paid and make some guesses about your income by
comparing recent sales in your neighborhood and mine all kinds of data.
I can also cross compare with other public data now online and divine
all sorts of stuff. Public records used to just rot in a file cabinet in
some government records warehouse which made the utility of the data
pretty low. With web access people are realizing that the obscurity of
the data is gone and anyone can look stuff up. Some were relying on this
obscurity to hide certain facts about themselves. Not anymore.
CB
Greg Kearney wrote:
But here again the staffers knew or should have known that the
information was public and as public information anyone was free to
collect it and put it online. There are lots of things like this. When
you are born, or have a child, when you marry, divorce, buy or sell
property and die those are all publicly recorded and the information
can, and will be found.
Consider deaths for example a simple search for my late father at
http://www.familysearch.org/ in the SSI Death Index turned up his
birth and death dates, social security number, state of issue, town
and zip code where he lived .
Greg Kearney
535 S. Jackson St.
Casper, Wyoming 82601
307-224-4022
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Apr 15, 2008, at 11:28 AM, Chris Blouch wrote:
It's worse. It's stored verbatim and searchable by anyone world wide
more or less forever. See the recent flap about the congressional
staffers here in the states having their public financial information
posted on the web. They relied on security by obscurity and now the
obscurity is gone. See
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=legistorm&btnG=Search+News
http://www.legistorm.com/
CB
Greg Kearney wrote:
One should always remember that anything posted to a public email
list or to a news groups is public. It is the same as if you went
onto the public street and said it.
Greg Kearney
535 S. Jackson St.
Casper, Wyoming 82601
307-224-4022
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Apr 15, 2008, at 9:17 AM, Lewis Brock wrote:
hi all
this is something a bit off topic but users of lists like this
must be aware of this. all messages posted to lists can be tracked
and viewed and used against you by people with intentions to harm
or inflict a bad name upon any person.
I have just experienced this first hand that a message from
macvisionaries was tracked and the user concerned has conducted
an abusive email attack upon me. this has horrified and upset me
and I am sickened to find this out.
how awful people in this world are. now I have officially lost
faith in the human race and I feel sick at the notion of someone
searching my name to find messages I have posted on lists including
this.
sorry to place an off topic section here but this has made me feel
incredibly shaken.
lew
Mr. Lewis Brock
Totally blind musician and composer of 21st century synth
orchestral music
Phone: +44 07857 352828
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Skype: lewisjbrock
