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Also, never give out your residential address to anyone except the government, and your employer. Use a virtual mailbox for all private companies because they l
by dheera 3y ago
Also, never give out your residential address to anyone except the government, and your employer. Use a virtual mailbox for all private companies because they leak info, just like this. Private companies are not the government and have no right to know where you sleep.
Don't register to vote. It doesn't matter anyway unless you're in a swing state, and the idiots at the voting registration offices leak residential addresses.
- 2024throwaway 3y agoWhen I said "I assume all my information is public", that included my address.
- sneak 3y agoI’d go one step further and say that the government also has no right to know where you sleep. This isn’t a prison, my location isn’t anyone’s business but my own.
- dheera 3y agoYeah I agree with you in principle, though I don't want to get in trouble with the people who have guns and handcuffs. Private businesses on the other hand can f off. My credit card co can't come and handcuff me for not giving them an address to leak to 3rd party auto ads.
- xwolfi 3y agoWell it's not a prison but it's a big group of people reaching compromises to make it safer for everyone else. Look at it this way: if nobody knows your address, not even the people guaranteeing property law, someone could enter your house, get you to fuck right off, and you'd end up naked in the street with everyone asking where's your proof you live there. Simplification sure, but you started.
- sneak 3y agoMy landlord and I have a signed lease which can be produced on demand. No other party need have the information in advance, especially not those who claim the authority to enforce property rights. Courts enforcing notional rights weeks or months later can’t get you un-murdered in your sleep by home invaders. Did we all forget that swatting is a thing? The place that you sleep is secret, and you should never tell it to anyone that isn’t an invited guest, especially not apps or the DMV. Every other data leak can nominally be mitigated with time, inconvenience, or expense, but violence to your person or your children cannot be un-done after the fact. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1274747 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1274747
- 2024throwaway 3y agoHow does one keep your address secret from the DMV?
- dheera 3y agoI guess if you are rich enough you could rent an additional studio that you don't actually sleep in 99% of the time but technically is one of your residences, and give that address to the DMV. When the DMV leaks your info to all your stalkers and crooks on the internet and they come after you they won't find you there.
- sneak 3y agoThis is the most airtight way if you have money to burn, but most everyone I know just uses a postbox (not a PO box but a private one) like full-time RVers/vanlife people do.
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- naruhodo 3y agoI read your reply in Ron Swanson's voice. Not that I disagree with you.
- sneak 3y agoThen why post a comment mocking me? Ron Swanson is parody; I am being sincere.