From: Alan Olsen <alano@teleport.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 08:49:36 +0800
To: Rich Graves <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Oregon License Plate Site in the News Tonight!
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At 09:24 AM 8/9/96 -0700, Rich Graves wrote:

>It might be fun to make the database open for a couple weeks, without a
>caveat about logging, and then publish the logs. Allow reverse lookups,
>i.e., who looked up my record.  A nice little dragnet of people who are
>interested in invading your privacy. 

This is impractical for one reason.  In most cases it will show the address
of the service provider, but will report nothing beyond that.  You will just
see which IP address you were assigned when you logged on.  The logs would
be true is some sense, flase in some sense and meaningless in most sense.

>For the near-medium term, I am resigned to the fact that government is going
>to collect personal information, and that it is going to leak out. I'm just
>interested in full disclosure of the leaks, and who is benefiting from them. 

This brings up an interesting point.  Is it poosible to obtain the list of
all the individuals/corporations that have purchaced the list of DMV
information and post *THAT* information to the net.  I think that people
would be surprised just who uses that information and for what...
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