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Subject: [Politech] Do-it-yourself Poindextering -- of ret. Adm. John
From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well ! com>
Date: 2003-12-08 14:52:25
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To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
From: Rob Carlson <rob@vees.net>
Subject: DIY Information Awareness
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 17:10:41 -0500
This will be old news to some, but amusing for others. Here is a
demonstration of do-it-yourself Information Awareness correlation for
drivers license numbers:
1. Select your political target resident of Florida, Illinois, Maryland,
Minnesota, New Hampshire, Washington or Wisconsin. For maximum irony in
this example, we'll select every privacy advocate's best friend and
Maryland resident: Vice Admiral John Poindexter.
2. Find a biographical resource for political figures which will have their
full name and date of birth. For this exercise, I used Warstories:CC.
http://www.warstories.cc/
Input their name and retrieve their biographical profile:
http://www.warstories.cc/person/?personId=3300
3. Take their full name including last name (Maryland MVA always requires
that the legal name from your birth certificate be used for the initial
entry in their database) and month and day of birth. Type them all into
Alan De Smet's Driver's License Calculator:
http://www.highprogrammer.com/cgi-bin/uniqueid/dl_md
You should see:
Input
Last Name: Poindexter
First Name: John
Middle Name: Marlan
Date of Birth:
Month: 8
Day: 12
Output
Driver's License Number: P532-429-585-630
4. On the assumption that there is no other "John Marlan Poindexter" (or
similar soundex) born on 8/12 living in the State of Maryland, you now have
an accurate correlation of the available data which you can save and use to
verify and challenge a physical ID card.
You can now treat any Admiral Poindexter you meet you presents you a
different Identification Number with a degree of suspicion prudent in this
day and age and deliver the alleged impostor immediately to the proper
authorities.
5. You can now sleep soundly knowing that you have done your patriotic duty.
--
Rob Carlson rob@vees.net http://vees.net/
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