Re:23andMe Pulls Off Massive Crowdsourced Depression Study
by jasode on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @08:58AM
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>is just an advertisement for a company called Abine
It's true the writer works for Abine (and she discloses that fact) but it's not relevant. Your comment (unintentionally) makes it sound like Abine is selling an intermediary privacy mailbox for receiving 23andMe data and that's not the case. Copying her steps requires zero interaction with Abine.
>Using your work address for a shipping/billing address is not "hacking [your] way around" anything.
She was using a fake name in combination with a work address which can be an adequate hack for many people if they are not under active FBI surveillance. If the work address has a thousand employees, that might be anonymous "enough". That's probably better anonymity than combining a fake name with your relative's (parent's/sibling's) address.
If one needs more anonymity than the fake name + work address, he/she would have to get way more creative. Possibly get on Silk Road 3.0 to buy a counterfeit government driver's license with an alias -- and use that ID to rent a USPS mailbox for $50. Also maybe get a wig and mustache to avoid face recognition from USPS cameras on the premises. Etc,
It's true the writer works for Abine (and she discloses that fact) but it's not relevant. Your comment (unintentionally) makes it sound like Abine is selling an intermediary privacy mailbox for receiving 23andMe data and that's not the case. Copying her steps requires zero interaction with Abine.
>Using your work address for a shipping/billing address is not "hacking [your] way around" anything.
She was using a fake name in combination with a work address which can be an adequate hack for many people if they are not under active FBI surveillance. If the work address has a thousand employees, that might be anonymous "enough". That's probably better anonymity than combining a fake name with your relative's (parent's/sibling's) address.
If one needs more anonymity than the fake name + work address, he/she would have to get way more creative. Possibly get on Silk Road 3.0 to buy a counterfeit government driver's license with an alias -- and use that ID to rent a USPS mailbox for $50. Also maybe get a wig and mustache to avoid face recognition from USPS cameras on the premises. Etc,