If you are in California the DMV makes tens of millions of dollars a year selling all the data you give to the DMV, which is why I give them a P.O. Box.
CADMV claims on their web site that they cannot accept a P.O. box as a residence address. I have yet to find anything in California state law supporting this policy, though IANAL. Their enforcement seems to be quite lax.
I think there's a number of people reading this who clearly didn't detect the satirical nature of this single sentence. It's blunt and obvious, but even so...
Brian Krebs' article is, in my opinion, a much better read for this story[0].
[0] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-probes-service-selli...
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I wonder if I can buy my own drivers licence since I lost it and now I need a copy to get some paperwork done! Hackers please!
If you are in California the DMV makes tens of millions of dollars a year selling all the data you give to the DMV, which is why I give them a P.O. Box.
CADMV claims on their web site that they cannot accept a P.O. box as a residence address. I have yet to find anything in California state law supporting this policy, though IANAL. Their enforcement seems to be quite lax.
You cannot literally use "P.O. box" but if you use the virtual street address service the USPS offers now it works just fine.
The HN submission title is a garden-path sentence:
Hackers Had a Live Feed of Every ID Verification Company Scanned
(Huh? How do you scan a company?)
The original title is easier to parse:
Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned
This is a sacrifice we just have to be willing to make as a society if we want to project kids from the horror of using the internet
I think there's a number of people reading this who clearly didn't detect the satirical nature of this single sentence. It's blunt and obvious, but even so...
That was sarcasm.
Except this helps no child.