From: wcs@anchor.ho.att.com (bill.stewart@pleasantonca.ncr.com +1-510-484-6204)
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 94 09:58:00 PDT
To: cactus@bb.com
Subject: Re:  Creating privacy crises: Society hacking
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> At the HOPE conference, there was someone selling CD-ROMs of the DMV
>  records for Oregon for $125.  The same folks promise to add more states
>  soon: next in line is Texas.
> Perhaps one could generate a privacy crisis by collecting that information
>  and conducting a mass mailing to every person in the database: "we have
>  this information on you.  So could anybody with $125.  Call your congress
>  critter and complain."

Mailing that information to everybody in Oregon would be expensive.
On the other hand, mailing it to everyone in the Oregon legislature,
the governor, the DMV honchos, and maybe a few other high honchos
could be interesting, and might not cost that much.....

		Bill