Re:Worst Puzzle Ever (2009)
by IshKebab on Friday September 21, 2018 @05:07PM
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He's clearly insanely paranoid about personal information, but that does sound like a terrible puzzle.
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Re:Worst Puzzle Ever (2009)
by justaguyhere on Friday September 21, 2018 @05:18PM
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Maybe he is paranoid, but it is his information, so he has every right to be! If only more people are like him, we wouldn't have all these multi billion dollar companies doing whatever they feel like with their users' info
Re:Worst Puzzle Ever (2009)
by bowmessage on Friday September 21, 2018 @06:15PM
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Sure, but why not just create a fake persona and call it a day. Transient email address, fake name, google voice phone number, done...
> why not just create a fake persona
If you read the article, you will see that the author did exactly that.
His rationale that the accumulated mailing list would be highly valuable is not wrong. The idea such a list would be sold by a luxury toy company looking for cash in hard economic times isn't hard to fathom. And this is before robo calls ruined our cell phones, back then you could keep your spam calls to almost zero if you were smart about giving your number out.