My missus started a new job recently, she was curious about her boss and it took me about 5 minutes to find his address and house on google maps.
That's sodding terrifying.
That's sodding terrifying.
In the 90s, I found a bosses address in the yellow pages in seconds, then called him at home on a Sunday, to chat the end of a football game.
Now I hate my boss and love random folks online.
Weird.
What's especially disconcerting is how fast your physical address leaks out. Within a couple of months moving to a new rental, they have my address down to the apartment number even though I never publish that publicly anywhere. I assume they ingest large data breaches.
We really need a kind of DNS for physical addresses. Abstract your physical address behind an fixed virtual one and only allow authorized parties to resolve the address. This would also be hugely helpful for people that move around a lot, since you'd never have to update your mailing address with any vendor ever again.