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The bureaus made some of the data provided by consumers—known as credit header information—available to other companies. The FTC defines credit header information as the portion of a consumer’s credit report that typically contains the person’s name, birth date, current and prior addresses, Social Security number, and telephone number. Essentially, it can include everything on a person’s credit report above the details on who they have borrowed money from—the top, or the header, of the document.
The Secret Weapon Hackers Can Use to Dox Nearly Anyone in America for $15
404media.co
A week later, Kelly made an unsuccessful last-ditch effort to persuade Trump not to replace him with Mick Mulvaney, a former congressman from South Carolina who was serving as Trump’s budget director. “You don’t want to hire someone who’s going to be a yes-man,” Kelly told the President. “I don’t give a shit anymore,” Trump replied. “I want a yes-man!”
Inside the War Between Trump and His Generals
newyorker.com
The UNIX way is undeniably more flexible since it isn't a virtual filesystem, it is just a filesystem. The problem is that everyone invented their own configuration format to store configuration data in /etc and there's no format agnostic API to access that information (you can open it, but can you understand it?).
Why the Windows Registry Sucks Technically (2010) | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
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