Got this creepy bullshit in the mail today.

Glad I voted for Harris/Walz

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    I didn’t. You posted my personal information on the Internet.

    They did, but so did you. They could not have posted it in text form if you hadn’t first posted it as a barcode which anyone (still) can decode.

    i fully agree that they should have told you privately instead of posting it in text form, and i personally would have deleted their comment if it was on the instance where i could (and if they hadn’t edited it already to remove your address).

    however, i must say: you appear to be confused. it has been six hours since their initial comment pointing out that you are doxing yourself via that barcode, and it is clear from your replies that you desire not to have your address published here… yet somehow you have still not replaced the image with a version that censors the barcode.

    lemmy has an “edit post” function. if you don’t want your address to be public, you should edit the post to replace the image with one that censors that barcode. HTH!

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        I’m really curious - was it actually your full address, or just your neighborhood? If the former, do you know how they learned it?!

        From reading the thread (only after they had already edited their comment) my impression is that whatever they posted came solely from the image you posted. Was that not the case?

        Apologies if I’ve misunderstood.

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          If they had just repeated what I had on my image, I wouldn’t have complained at all.

          They posted my address. Stop blaming me for shit other people dead.

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            24 hours ago

            If they had just repeated what I had on my image, I wouldn’t have complained at all.

            They posted my address. Stop blaming me for shit other people dead.

            My assumption that whatever they posted came solely from your image was because they said:

            That barcode above is your full address btw

            to which you replied:

            But the post didn’t until you posted it.

            Do you see how someone looking at that exchange would read it as you acknowledging (via the word “But”) that whatever they posted did in fact come from the barcode, and you are complaining about them decoding it?

            If they in fact obtained and posted your full address via some other means, I’m sorry for misunderstanding - and curious how they learned it!

            I’m still also confused by the fact that the barcode does not (as far as I can tell) contain a full address but rather just a zip+4 - which you also (still) have visible in text form in the image.

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              23 hours ago

              Still victim blaming I see, psychopath. I’m not responsible for what someone else did. Do you also blame women for getting raped? Murder victims for getting murdered?