[geeks] Secret codes, was US Post Office Website broken again

[Sheldon T. Hall]

 Quoth Shannon Hendrix ...
> [I said ...]
> > Trader Joe's (a largely west-coast grocery chain) used to ask for  
> > zip codes;
> > they used that to figure out where to build new stores.
> 
> You have to be careful here though.
> 
> A lot of stores use partial information to gradually build full  
> information profiles, sometimes even illegally.

It's pretty hard to figure out what evil Trader Joe's could perpetrate with
what they can find out ... If I pay with a credit card, they probably can
find out my address, and they know what I bought.  Since they don't sell
anything even remotely sensitive, blackmail-wise ....

"Yo!  We know you bought some 'Heisenberg's Blend' coffee at TJ's and,
we're, uhhhh, gonna, like, tell the cops if'n you don't, uhhhh....."

Nah.

I really don't give a rat sandwich if they know where I live and what I buy
from them, and I can't see how they can figure out anything else from the
information I'm giving them.

-Shel