[45435] in Cypherpunks
Re: ADDRESS DATABASE?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Lull)
Fri Dec 15 07:24:03 1995
From: lull@acm.org (John Lull)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 12:00:23 GMT
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951214144159.12822D-100000@crl.crl.com>
On Thu, 14 Dec 1995 14:50:19 -0800 (PST), Sandy Sandfort wrote:
> So far, no one has come up with anything stronger than specula-
> tion about my database question. Some "anonymous" told me how
> easy it was to buy *phone numbers* on CD-ROMs. Great, but I
> didn't give the guy my phone number.
These CD-ROMs can be searched for most any combination of name, street
name, city, state, zip and area code.
Given a relatively uncommon name and a zip code, it's not surprising
they could come up with only one hit.
