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Letter to 'that boy with the glasses' reaches recipient in Ireland

by jeffhod on 7/18/15, 7:08 PM with 1 comments

• by dredmorbius on 7/18/15, 8:25 PM

  Consider this in terms of anonymisation. Eight items (NB: not bits) of information were sufficient to identify an individual among 7.3 billion in the world.

  Or the several millions in Ireland.