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cm2012

I am going to be very curious to see if there are any downsides or negatives at all to this hacking happening. In theory this information could be used to scam a lot of Danes. In practice these major hacks end up fizzling out, in my experience - the data being less useful or more duplicated than people thought.

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Just because we cannot identify any disadvantages does not mean that there are none.

Imagine a foreign state-sponsored agent waiting at the door of a public or private decision-maker, convincing them to cooperate. Home addresses are no joke. Especially if you can grep through the whole family tree.

It is more or less trivial to find someone's home address now if you try at all. Thats my point on duplicated data in hacks.

It really depends and I often struggle with it. How do you do it?

The German Melderegisters, for example, are now far more interested in the stated reason for your data request than they were ten years ago. (Which is a good thing!)

Many things that are trivial in theory, given the right conditions, etc. are anything but trivial once you actually try to do it.

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