Re: [privacy] The Internet Anonymity Experiment

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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- -- security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org> wrote:

> : In 2006, David Holtzman decided to do an experiment. Holtzman, a 
> : security consultant and former intelligence analyst, was working on a 
> : book about privacy, and he wanted to see how much he could find out 
> : about himself from sources available to any tenacious stalker.
> : 
> : So he did background checks. He pulled his credit file. He looked at 
> : Amazon.com transactions and his credit-card and telephone bills. He got 
> : his DNA analyzed and kept a log of all the people he called and 
> : e-mailed, along with the Web sites he visited. When he put the 
> : information together, he was able to discover so much about
> himself—from  : detailed financial information to the fact that he was
> circumcised—that  : his publisher, concerned about his privacy,
> didn’t let him include it  : all in the book.
>
> I don't see a "tenacious stalker" getting all of that though. Think about 
what it takes to get each thing listed above, the money involved, what 
systems you'd have to break into and gain full control over, etc.
>

Still, it does illustrate the issue that individuals do not have
control over the propagation of their personal identifying information.

Would you agree?

- - ferg

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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg(at)netzero.net
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