-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- A brief search of www.lexis-nexis.com reveals a few interesting details: 1. You can look up people in P-TRAK by SSN. 2. There are many other databases of personal information, including: a. "REZIDE", "searchable by congressional district, area code plus exchange, county, state, metropolitan statistical area (MSA) and dominant market area (DMA)" and "providing a detailed demographic portrait [...] including age, income, race, ethnicity, household composition, employment", a "White/Blue collar index" and a "family life-cycle code". b. "DCEASE", giving information including SSN about dead people. c. An assets database identifying real-estate or FAA-registered aircraft owned by people. d. Something called "P-FIND" which is advertised as "having greater detail [than P-TRAK] with regard to the individual's household (value of home, number of dependents)". This one appears in a newsletter from 1994, so the service may be discontinued (although of course the data still exists...). It would be a fun experiment and a good cypherpunk publicity stunt to test Lexis-Nexis out. Pick a demo victim, e.g. a journalist who is honest, smart and concerned about such issues, but not one who is too famous or rich. Use Lexis-Nexis (and possibly other resources) to learn all that you can about him/her. If he/she lives in a sparsely-populated area a narrow enough REZIDE search might give income, number of persons in household, marital status, age, schooling, ethnicity, vehicles owned, and employment, and that would be with a single search. Compile everything you know and send it to the victim, explaining how you got the information. Regards, Bryce -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i Comment: Auto-signed under Unix with 'BAP' Easy-PGP v1.1b2 iQB1AwUBMkJQCUjbHy8sKZitAQFb8AL/f2yQWv1R4QcftBF4khw0DZrd/szZqte3 UQ0HvjtAdjiVee7aLiumljMUqyMOzsXQlkWKh1/JXmbgVAVrsJGhZEFCyqbheUwP eqhP1QEYVHfjueQy1FlSb7U3f+VI2tzk =mky+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----