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- From: iharkest@solan.unit.no (Inge Harkestad)
- Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors
- Subject: Re: Recent sitings?
- Message-ID: <1991Jan17.145227.18211@idt.unit.no>
- Date: 17 Jan 91 14:52:27 GMT
- References: <TOAD.91Jan14113940@ZEN.MT.CS.CMU.EDU>
- Sender: news@idt.unit.no (Usenet news admin)
- Reply-To: iharkest@solan.unit.no (Inge Harkestad)
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- Organization: Norwegian Institue of Technology
- Lines: 35
- Posted: Thu Jan 17 08:52:27 1991
-
- In article <TOAD.91Jan14113940@ZEN.MT.CS.CMU.EDU>, toad@CS.CMU.EDU (Todd Kaufmann) writes:
-
- |> After going public with this information, the man found his identity being
- |> taking away. The hospital where he was born had no information, the county
- |> didn't have his birthicate, previous employers had no records of him ever
- |> having worked for them.
-
- Er... after having written this article, Todd, have you checked the hospital
- where *you* were born? Too bad if they've never heard of you... ;-)
-
- In a followup, pkenny@ADS.COM (Patrick Kenny) writes:
-
- |> I have thought about eraseing a persons identity. I have thought about
- |> how much work was involved, how much time involved, records you just
- |> can't access, people you can't kill, minds you can't erase, certain
- |> files that just cannont be erased. It's hard enough finding out about
- |> a person you don't know, it's even harder eraseing their life.
-
- Well, I think it will be hard for someone to convince your wife that you
- are not married to her and that you don't exist... However, I suppose the
- government/the military have the power to erase just about any single record
- and file about a person, though it will of course involve considerable amounts
- of work. And with all official records about you deleted, I think you'll be
- in a heck of a trouble, even though friends and relatives still recognize you.
- How will you get a job, what about your bank accounts, social security,
- pensions and so on... Nasty case, if you want my opinion!
-
- |> -todd
-
- |> -pk
-
- -ih
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- Inge Harkestad | iharkest@solan.unit.no
- " - I never really found myself until I lost my mind - "
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