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other Lexis-Nexis databases
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A brief search of www.lexis-nexis.com reveals a few interesting
details:
1. You can look up people in P-TRAK by SSN.
2. There are many other databases of personal information,
including:
a. "REZIDE", "searchable by congressional district, area code
plus exchange, county, state, metropolitan statistical area
(MSA) and dominant market area (DMA)" and "providing a detailed
demographic portrait [...] including age, income, race,
ethnicity, household composition, employment", a "White/Blue
collar index" and a "family life-cycle code".
b. "DCEASE", giving information including SSN about dead
people.
c. An assets database identifying real-estate or FAA-registered
aircraft owned by people.
d. Something called "P-FIND" which is advertised as "having
greater detail [than P-TRAK] with regard to the individual's
household (value of home, number of dependents)". This one
appears in a newsletter from 1994, so the service may be
discontinued (although of course the data still exists...).
It would be a fun experiment and a good cypherpunk publicity
stunt to test Lexis-Nexis out. Pick a demo victim,
e.g. a journalist who is honest, smart and concerned about such
issues, but not one who is too famous or rich. Use Lexis-Nexis
(and possibly other resources) to learn all that you can about
him/her. If he/she lives in a sparsely-populated area a narrow
enough REZIDE search might give income, number of persons in
household, marital status, age, schooling, ethnicity, vehicles
owned, and employment, and that would be with a single search.
Compile everything you know and send it to the victim,
explaining how you got the information.
Regards,
Bryce
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