Database containing details of 56M US residents found on the public internet

Post by perl4ever » Sat, Jan 11, 2020, 5:02 AM UTC

lubujackson wrote: post #21

Mountain_Skies wrote: post #10

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Reading the Letters to the Editor and similar features in older magazines and newspapers reveals something that would be unthinkable today: it was common for the home address of the person writing to the periodical to be published along with their letter. As far as I can tell, no one had a problem with this. When I was young, drivers licenses included your Social Security number and it was common to have it printed o…

This is an interesting insight. I think most reactionary pro-privacy responses (the HN default perspective) really stem from a complicated internalization of data gathering/use capabilities that has been adjusted over time combined with a lizard brain feeling of invasiveness. Because almost always no one particularly gives a crap about YOU and your specific data, but they may profit from and misuse your information i…

Post by flurdy » Sat, Jan 11, 2020, 12:09 PM UTC

astura wrote: post #34

flurdy wrote: post #2

Paging https://haveibeenpwned.com and https://twitter.com/troyhunt

First off, this is all just public information. Secondly the location of the database was not disclosed by the researcher, so he can't exactly load it into haveibeenpwned

Post by Keverw » Sat, Jan 11, 2020, 11:21 PM UTC

astura wrote: post #44

Keverw wrote: post #40

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For the entire state? I figured a county by county thing. But I do think more legal case law and publicly funded research should be open to the public. I know people feel that way about PACER, so someone created a plugin called Recap.

Yes, for the state. We don't really have county courts here, just judicial districts which are all operated by the state. (We have no county governments)