[65868] in Cypherpunks
Re: GAK, GAP, GAY
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Clow)
Thu Sep 19 01:16:44 1996
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960918203816.20649I-100000@mcfeely.bsfs.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 21:58:12 -0700
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Marshall Clow <mclow@owl.csusm.edu>
Cc: Rabid Wombat <wombat@mcfeely.bsfs.org>
Rabit Wombat wrote:
>Don't get me wrong - I'm not disagreeing with you about how grim your
>points are. I just wanted to point out that information "could" be
>released to researchers without identifying the patient - researchers are
>generally interested in statistical data, such as the incidence of cancer
>per zip code, etc., which doesn't require your name to be released. Zip
>codes are sufficiently populated that this probably is of no danger to
>privacy.
>
Um.....
Zip code 92067-1234 is my mother's mailing address.
OK, it's not -1234, but there is a 9 digit zip code that is sufficient
to get mail to my mother, and my mother alone.
P.S. This is less than 5 miles outside the city
limits of San Diego; hardly a "low population density" area.
-- Marshall
Marshall Clow Aladdin Systems <mailto:mclow@mailhost2.csusm.edu>
"We're not gonna take it/Never did and never will
We're not gonna take it/Gonna break it, gonna shake it,
let's forget it better still" -- The Who, "Tommy"
