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Re:The Secret Weapon Hackers Can Use to Dox Nearly Anyone in... by citrusynapse on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @01:26PM (#37225929)
You are going to get a lot of people telling you that you're a libertarian nutjob. Even here, which touts itself as a bastion of internet privacy champions and "experts".

But you, you're walking the walk. Asking the hard questions and accepting the consequences. There is only one way to make things change.

Don't let any little pedants tell you "how your daughter is going to grow up", either. Or that they somehow know how she'll feel about you.

FWIW: my kids have SSN's and that is just as dangerous as what you've chose.

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Re:The Secret Weapon Hackers Can Use to Dox Nearly Anyone in... by landemva on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @02:04PM (#37226464)
Yes, the big brain types sometimes get really pissed off when they find out they were tricked into voluntarily consenting into a bunch of stuff.

When you get/renew passports, leave the SSN box blank. It will become second nature to ignore these data requests.

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Re:The Secret Weapon Hackers Can Use to Dox Nearly Anyone in... by msla on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @06:12PM (#37229247)
> You are going to get a lot of people telling you that you're a libertarian nutjob.

No, just making life more difficult for his child, who has no say in the matter.

Some people are bad at seeing children as humans, as opposed to appendages of the parent.

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Re:The Secret Weapon Hackers Can Use to Dox Nearly Anyone in... by citrusynapse on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @09:27PM (#37230789)
Do you see the irony in your first statement?

Or have you already resolved to believe that person is your "some people"?

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