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Old Mar 5, 2004 | 1:04 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by NoStressHere:
Side note regarding the calculations above. I think the poster said you could do 10 requests per second. I did some checking on how long it take a request to come back and it was 2-3 seconds for bad ones, and 7 seconds for a good one. So, you are then looking at 8 hours to find ONE good record. Yes, the privacy for someone has just been released.</font>
You are basing your 'calculations' based on how long something takes to load in your browser manually?

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">That boarding pass you are using to bookmark your book, or just stuck in a seat pocket or are standing there in line gives me enough information to get into your records. And just think about the havac that could be caused.</font>
There is a difference between exposing your own personal information yourself and having Northwest Airlines expose your personal information.

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Knowing that someone named John Doe is flying on a certain day is no big deal unless you maybe KNOW who John Doe is?</font>
It may not be a big deal to you, but that's not representative of everyone else.
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