Scared to show your plates? I don't get it.

C9 et al..this is getting pretty OT for the HAMB, but...

As far as privacy being gone, that's true if you take advantage of the technology that requires bites of privacy. Come of the govt data you can get around by just not updating it.

Very little data exists for me, and much of what does is incorrect or outdated. My electric bill and my Netflix account are just about the only accurate records of my address.

You guys have seen me post an image of my Waffle-House card instead of typing it when someone needs my address or phone number. That is one more small, but not foolproof, way of preventing my address and phone number from being accounted for.

Probally the biggest forfiture of information came last year when I bought a new truck and got a loan to pay for it. I tried to give them my "permanent" address - my parents - but they couldn't find any proof that I lived there.

For you land owners, the privlage of building equity creates the most public records, and allows anyone access the the largest amount of info.

It's not that I have anything to hide, but I AM paranoid and don't trust most other folks motives, particularly governments.

There are all sorts of things you can do to hide data, or make it confusing or difficult to get to, but there are plenty of security, privacy and conspiritional web sites that can give advice on those.

 

Go to Yahoo people search and enter your name, or a buddys. You can see their phone number and address, and it'll even show you a map that details how to get to their house if you'd like!

Hey, it's the information age...it can work FOR ya and against ya!

 

Phil Stephens......sorry about the "Fuck off". I didn't know it was you. We Oregonians [I'm now an ex-Oregonian] guard our state with savage determination. Usta be a popular Oregon bumper sticker..."Don't Californicate Oregon"

 

Darn internet weirdos! Nothin but a bunch of freaks on that thing!

 

fuck them,, ill give them my fuckin adress ,let them try, ...they'll get the same treatment as the OTHER fuckin crackheads.....makes me no differnece

 

in the future, everyone will have 15 minutes of privacy.

 

Similar info; guy gets a vin # off new Escalade SP? goes to GM dealer with "lost my key" get duplicate made steals car' maybe true, maybe not, here in NY the vin # is on the car and on the registration sticker.

 

You should not be able to obtain a new key by VIN # unless you provide the dealer with proof of ownership.

I used to be a state law enforcement officer. One of my buddies locked his keys in his car while we were training at a firing range. The car was a new vehicle, so the trusty old Slim Jim would not work.

Three of us all showed up at the dealer in full uniform with valid credentials. The guy refused to make us a VIN based key without the registration to the vehicle.

We exlained that the registration was locked in the vehicle. This fact was lost on him. I guess the fact that we were state law enforment officers was lost on him too. Maybe he thoought we were all crooked and were part of a police car theft ring...lol

Finally after speaking with the manager of the dealership, we were able to get a new key.

Maybe he was afraid it was a trap....lol