ADDRESS DATABASE?

John Lull lull at acm.org
Fri Dec 15 04:29:58 PST 1995


On Thu, 14 Dec 1995 14:50:19 -0800 (PST), Sandy Sandfort wrote:

> So far, no one has come up with anything stronger than specula-
> tion about my database question.  Some "anonymous" told me how
> easy it was to buy *phone numbers* on CD-ROMs.  Great, but I
> didn't give the guy my phone number.

These CD-ROMs can be searched for most any combination of name, street
name, city, state, zip and area code.

Given a relatively uncommon name and a zip code, it's not surprising
they could come up with only one hit.






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