[privacy] I.P. Address: Partially Personal Information

[Richard M. Smith]

My grandfather's Eastern-European surname got changed to "Smith" at Ellis
Island in the 1920's.  My wife also lost her unique last name when she
married me. ;-)  However her first and last name is still a pretty unique
combination.

Richard

-----Original Message-----
From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu] 
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 1:23 PM
To: rms at computerbytesman.com
Cc: privacy at whitestar.linuxbox.org
Subject: Re: [privacy] I.P. Address: Partially Personal Information

On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:46:50 EST, rms at computerbytesman.com said:

> BTW, my name isn't particularly identifying.  I suspect there are at least
> 20,000 "Richard Smiths" in the U.S. To identify me specifically one needs
> some other information such as a birth year and a Zip code.  

Some of us aren't so lucky.