Re:Ask HN: So what if my personal information gets stolen?
by hahabrew on Saturday January 05, 2019 @02:54AM
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cyber stalking is very real, very prevalent, and made even easier than it intrinsically is, by irresponsible PII use and meta analysis, stalkers did this in thier head, or spent time pouring over phonebooks and dumpster documents.
just ask any women that care to be here about thier experiences and a different world will be known to you
For a second, pretend you're one of these "pervs" you're worried about. Are you going to randomly pick a name out of a data dump from Marriott's database, and try to correlate that with other leaked data to figure out the likelihood of this person you've never seen standing on a particular corner at 5:37pm on November 3rd?
Or are you going to say "Sharon from accounting smells nice, I'm going to follow her home after work"?
I think the latter is something more reasonable to worry about.