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Hackers had a live feed of every ID verification company scanned for over a year

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Re: Hackers had a live feed of every ID verification company scanned for over a year

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If you are in California the DMV makes tens of millions of dollars a year selling all the data you give to the DMV, which is why I give them a P.O. Box.

CADMV claims on their web site that they cannot accept a P.O. box as a residence address. I have yet to find anything in California state law supporting this policy, though IANAL. Their enforcement seems to be quite lax.

You cannot literally use "P.O. box" but if you use the virtual street address service the USPS offers now it works just fine.

Re: Hackers had a live feed of every ID verification company scanned for over a year

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post #5

This is a sacrifice we just have to be willing to make as a society if we want to project kids from the horror of using the internet

I think there's a number of people reading this who clearly didn't detect the satirical nature of this single sentence. It's blunt and obvious, but even so...

Re: Hackers had a live feed of every ID verification company scanned for over a year

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post #6

If you are in California the DMV makes tens of millions of dollars a year selling all the data you give to the DMV, which is why I give them a P.O. Box.

Am I missing something? What do you mean the DMV makes tens of millions of dollars a year selling data to itself?

Re: Hackers had a live feed of every ID verification company scanned for over a year

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post #5

This is a sacrifice we just have to be willing to make as a society if we want to project kids from the horror of using the internet

All the kids will be safe now they're logging into porn sites as Pete Hegseth.

Re: Hackers had a live feed of every ID verification company scanned for over a year

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post #15
post #6

If you are in California the DMV makes tens of millions of dollars a year selling all the data you give to the DMV, which is why I give them a P.O. Box.

Am I missing something? What do you mean the DMV makes tens of millions of dollars a year selling data to itself?

The DMV sells the data you give to the DMV. The DMV does not sell the data you give to the DMV to the DMV.

Re: Hackers had a live feed of every ID verification company scanned for over a year

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post #15
post #6

If you are in California the DMV makes tens of millions of dollars a year selling all the data you give to the DMV, which is why I give them a P.O. Box.

Am I missing something? What do you mean the DMV makes tens of millions of dollars a year selling data to itself?

selling (data you give to the DMV) [to third parties], not selling (data you give) [to the DMV]

Re: Hackers had a live feed of every ID verification company scanned for over a year

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post #5

This is a sacrifice we just have to be willing to make as a society if we want to project kids from the horror of using the internet

This is precisely why the authority doing these checks needs to be the government that already issues the IDs.

Using ZKP as the EU proposes is the only way to prevent this data being leaked to unreliable third parties and leaves the knowledge with the institution it derives from in the first place.

I don't know why HN rails against it constantly, it is the obvious technical and organizational solution to this issue.

Re: Hackers had a live feed of every ID verification company scanned for over a year

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post #5

This is a sacrifice we just have to be willing to make as a society if we want to project kids from the horror of using the internet

That was sarcasm.

Are you sure? It’s really hard to differentiate nowadays
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