Maker of US border's license-plate scanning tech ransacked by hacker

Re:Maker of US border's license-plate scanning tech ransacke... by Retra on Friday May 24, 2019 @12:22PM (#20003080)

Tracking people is like 90% of what every organization does. It's why we have names, phone numbers, addresses, id numbers, license plates, etc. "Tracking people = bad" is an untenable assumption.

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Re:Maker of US border's license-plate scanning tech ransacke... by savethefuture on Friday May 24, 2019 @12:40PM (#20003244)

Well go ahead and dox yourself right here for us.

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Re:Maker of US border's license-plate scanning tech ransacke... by Retra on Friday May 24, 2019 @01:13PM (#20003490)

Perhaps I'm not being clear. "Tracking people involuntarily" might be bad. "Tracking people unnecessarily" might be bad. But they will be bad because they are involuntary and unnecessary, not because they are tracking people.

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Re:Maker of US border's license-plate scanning tech ransacke... by komali2 on Friday May 24, 2019 @01:17PM (#20003522)

Ok, I argue then that all tracking of people is unnecessary.

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Re:Maker of US border's license-plate scanning tech ransacke... by Retra on Friday May 24, 2019 @01:29PM (#20003616)

Are you going to actually argue it, or are you just going to tease? It means nothing to me that you would disagree in some vague manner.

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Re:Maker of US border's license-plate scanning tech ransacke... by stale2002 on Friday May 24, 2019 @03:20PM (#20004529)

My username is associated with my real life identity and would be trivial for people to look me up.

I am already "doxxed" and it doesn't bother me.

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Re:Maker of US border's license-plate scanning tech ransacke... by torified on Sunday May 26, 2019 @12:16AM (#20013094)

I don't see it anywhere. Where does it list your personal info?

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Re:Maker of US border's license-plate scanning tech ransacke... by stale2002 on Sunday May 26, 2019 @04:40PM (#20017361)

It's easily googleable, man. In 5 minutes you could find my LinkedIn info, and then know exactly who I am and where I work.

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