OK this is really creepy. KickStarter has the reasonable requirement that one verify one's identity. So I entered my first and last name, my real birthday - which I never post online _anywhere_, so as to avoid identity theft, and my present home address, which no one at all knows about because I'm presently couch-surfing.
In less than ten seconds it asked which of four street addresses in lived at, in Owl's Head, Maine. While I did live in Owl's Head back in the day, there were very, very few people who knew my street address. KickStarter also knew the make and model of the car I owned at the time, as well as the exact name of a business partnership that I co-owned in the late eighties. I can see how they might come up with my street address and car from a credit report, but I don't have the first clue how they identified my business partnership. We only did one very small consulting gig, and received just one client paycheck. We did have a bank account, but that was over twenty years ago. I wouldn't have expected such records to be kept so long, and to be available so quickly. Mike On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 7:53 PM, Michael Crawford <mdcrawf...@gmail.com> wrote: > Oopsy-Doodle. > > I'll look into what Cocotron and GNUStep have done before actually > launching my KickStarter Project. > > Just about their very first requirement is to state one's funding goal > and time deadline. I just took a wild guess and specified thirty > days, and twenty thousand dollars. > > That might sound like a really high hourly rate for just one month's > work, but I would have to work almost 24/7 to pull it off. > > Mike > > On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Charles Srstka > <cocoa...@charlessoft.com> wrote: >> On Jun 22, 2013, at 8:38 PM, Michael Crawford <mdcrawf...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Just now I'm about to register a KickStarter project that would >> compensate me for completely reverse-engineering the Core Data >> formats. >> >> >> I believe that some of the work on this has been done already; Cocotron and >> GNUStep both seem to have at least a partial implementation of Core Data. As >> I stated before, this still makes me hesitant to use it, since even with a >> reverse engineered version of the framework, you still have the same two >> problems: >> >> 1. You don't know if the reverse engineered framework is 100% complete and >> covers every single corner case that might arise in a Core Data file, and >> >> 2. Since the format isn't published, there's no reason that Apple might make >> changes to it in the future, including but not limited to features that are >> technically in the private, internal specification which haven't been >> implemented yet, but which a reader would still need to be able to deal >> with. >> >> Charles >> > > > > -- > Michael David Crawford > mdcrawford at gmail dot com > > Custom Software Development for the iPhone and Mac OS X > http://www.dulcineatech.com/custom-software-development/ -- Michael David Crawford mdcrawford at gmail dot com Custom Software Development for the iPhone and Mac OS X http://www.dulcineatech.com/custom-software-development/ _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
