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Comment by dheera | Hacker News Reader

Or even non-public figure not wanting randos knowing where their house is.

I'm not a public figure and I don't want where I sleep posted all over the internet. I don't have the budget for security if some Twitter fool decides to give me a death threat because of a comment.

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I remember when you could find someone's home address in the white pages of the phone book.

I guess sending threats then required more of sending a physical mail, which could be used with better effect in dealing with threats?

Back in the day, I looked up a minor celebrity in my hometown and just... knocked on his door one afternoon and had a nice chat. Can't wait to explain this to my grandchildren.

And you could opt out if you wanted.

If someone really wants to know where you live, they will find you. If the information in your bio is actually yours, there’s already plenty to work with. :)

A lock is not to keep out bad guys who want to get in, but to keep good guys honest. Same with privacy.

Why not install a camera on your toilet while we’re at it?

Or do you have something to hide?

I’ll do everything I can to keep sickos the hell away from me. Too many stalkers or people DMing inappropriate shit. But I never forget that in the end I’m never truly safe from someone trying to do serious harm.

> A lock is not to keep out bad guys who want to get in

This is definitely not true. Locks are to keep randos from invading your space — drunk, drugged, and/or mentally unhealthy people end up in the oddest places sometimes. My buddy had a guy high on meth open and climb through a laundry room window and start wandering through his house. I’ve twice had drunk people knock on my door loudly and try to let themselves in (different cities) and swear that they were at the right address. These were all in decent/nice areas (some not so nice areas a mile or so away, but still…).

Same with privacy corps…

You don’t want some rando who is irrationally angry at your business or at you to be able to find you easily.

You don’t have to be as famous as Barbra Streisand in order to be a person of interest to mentally unhealthy randos.

Just my 2 cents…

Totally agree, and I don’t feel this invalidated my point

> If the information in your bio is actually yours, there’s already plenty to work with. :)

I make it pretty hard, actually.

USA is uniquely dysfunctional in only being able to (mostly) identify people by referring to an address. You could very well have public ownership records without revealing addresses.

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