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Paranoid?[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#9)
by Anonymous User on Tue Mar 11, 2008 at 09:18:48 AM PDT

Certainly, credit card data and other personal financial information should never be sent in an email. But name and address? That information is only considered secret by the terminally paranoid. It's in the phone book. It's readily available from the DMV (at least in Florida). You've given it to any business you've done business with (even casually). What do you think will happen if somebody gets ahold of that information? You'll get more junk mail?

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Apparently...[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#10)
by Anonymous User on Tue Mar 11, 2008 at 09:42:40 AM PDT

...you've never been stalked before.

Well, you know what they say. There's a first time for everything.


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Oh Puhleeze, let's inject some reality here[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#12)
by Anonymous User on Tue Mar 11, 2008 at 11:45:29 AM PDT

The act of knowing an address is a stalking threat? Most stalking incidents are related to personal relationship issues or matters of celebrity. The probability that a stalking threat will result because a random person somewhere in the world receives a name and address is so remote that I would be more worried about protecting my home from meteorite hits. ... and remember this is all a result of the customer apparently deliberately entering a bogus e-mail address when purchasing.

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Reality? I'll give you reality...[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#13)
by Anonymous User on Fri Mar 14, 2008 at 01:33:20 PM PDT

The act of knowing an address is a stalking threat?

No, but it increases the risk.

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Wow[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#15)
by Anonymous User on Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 06:55:35 AM PDT

So that means the phone book is a veritable wealth of stalking danger? Or for that matter, Google, or 411.com?

This is starting to sound more tin-foil hat than real

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Apparently...[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#18)
by Anonymous User on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 05:21:17 AM PDT

...you've never heard of things like unlisted phone numbers either. :P

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