On Mar 12, 2010, at 1:57 PM, Scott Weeks wrote:
--- tme@americafree.tv wrote: From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
This might be useful to some. Article : http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62B08720100312
site :http://www.broadband.gov/
It requires giving your address. -----------------------------------------------
Nah, no real address needed. Just use 123 elm street abbeville alabama 36310. That's the first zip code I found on a site... ;-)
What they really need is something more or less like an accurate zip code, I suspect. They want to find out what real "broadband" speeds are in different parts of the country. Putting in a fake address renders your data useless. One can ask why they aren't using IP geolocation; I suspect it's because it's not accurate enough. Your address? They may be interested in how many cable-feet you are from a CO, for DSL linkes. Now -- under the Privacy Act, if they're collecting addresses I believe they had to do a Privacy Impact Assessment. Since I can't imagine why it would be classified, it should be publicly available. I don't see it, but I don't have time today to look for it. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb