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Assume your name, phone, email, address are all public. Someone on HN will invariably point out that this is how it was for the last hundred years, and it was only when we made computers powerful enough to abuse the information that this level of privacy became a concern. I remember the days when your name, address, and phone number were public information. I paid something like $15/month to keep it out of the phone book. What I recently learned, browsing through old books that a local library was throwing away, is that sometimes those phone book listings would also include things like a woman's maiden name, and the name of her husband, and/or marital status. Something like: Smith, Margaret C (nee Jones, widow of George): 202-555-1212
That part was new to me. |