[MyData & Open Data] NY Taxi data breach.

[Tin Geber]

+1 on effort != effectiveness.

What boggles the mind here is that a quick consultation with someone a bit more savvy than the guy who said “just hash'em” would have probably been enough to figure out a process that would have taken the same amount of time and effort to implement, with much better results.

Tin

On 24 Jun 2014, at 12:00, Sam Smith <s at msmith.net> wrote:

> 
> On 24 Jun 02014, at 10:56, Walter van Holst <walter.van.holst at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> On 2014-06-24 11:21, Javier Ruiz Diaz wrote:
>>>> How on earth the data holder thought that that data was anonymised
>>>> in the wild is beyond me.
>> 
>> Mark is probably not on this list, but the more depressing thought is that this data holder went to much greater lengths in attempting to anonymise the data than the average data holder would. And still failed miserably.
> 
> Unfortunately, in disclosure work especially, effort does not equate with effectiveness.
> 
> It is easy to spend a great deal of time and effort on something utterly pointless, and claim success.
> 
> Until someone points out that what you're doing may not entirely be wise.
> 
> 
> Given the granularity of the data, NYers who get taxis from their mistress home ("from the office") to their wives may have some explaining to do; belief is different to proof.
> 
> 
> 
> Regards
> Sam
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