Anybody got the VIN of a junked/totalled 2001?

[Thelgord]

I too am a Federal Employee. Army actually, and I teach AIT for Satellite Communications. In the class rooms one floor up, they teach cyber security. The main thing knowing these guys (the other instructors) has taught me is that once something is online, it never goes away. You can delete it all you want, it is still online somewhere. Facebook actually records as you type, so every corrected word, every cancelled post, is still saved even though you didn't press "post". The tools available are quite amazing actually, and surprisingly simple to use. Just remember, nothing is free. If it is offered at "no cost to you", then you, and your data, are the product.

I am not saying this to discourage you in anyway. It is the reality of the world we live in. Unless you go full Ted Kazinski and live completely off the grid, you are tracked, analyzed, and monetized. Welcome to the future.

[ipd]

P.S.
I don't even have "99 black vx" listed on my profile. Consider purging that from yours?

I don't ID monitor. I'll occasionally do google searches for myself, but I almost never get anything. I try and avoid using my actual name online when possible. I've also started to use differing id handles on different sites/message boards--so that it's difficult for any casual observer/collector to assemble them as 1 person (you'd really have to use typing heuristics, etc). Even IP address isn't sufficient, given that I'm on different devices, and constantly swapping proxies and/or using Tor. Again, not impermeable, but hardly an easy nut to crack.