At 09:24 AM 8/9/96 -0700, Rich Graves wrote:
It might be fun to make the database open for a couple weeks, without a caveat about logging, and then publish the logs. Allow reverse lookups, i.e., who looked up my record. A nice little dragnet of people who are interested in invading your privacy.
This is impractical for one reason. In most cases it will show the address of the service provider, but will report nothing beyond that. You will just see which IP address you were assigned when you logged on. The logs would be true is some sense, flase in some sense and meaningless in most sense.
For the near-medium term, I am resigned to the fact that government is going to collect personal information, and that it is going to leak out. I'm just interested in full disclosure of the leaks, and who is benefiting from them.
This brings up an interesting point. Is it poosible to obtain the list of all the individuals/corporations that have purchaced the list of DMV information and post *THAT* information to the net. I think that people would be surprised just who uses that information and for what... --- Alan Olsen -- alano@teleport.com -- Contract Web Design & Instruction `finger -l alano@teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key http://www.teleport.com/~alano/ "We had to destroy the Internet in order to save it." - Sen. Exon "Microsoft -- Nothing but NT promises."