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Letter: Look in the book

Published 29 August 1998

From Gary Sewell

There is a much simpler way to match phone numbers with addresses than the
convoluted route given by Mark Butler
(Letters, 1 August, p 48).

Instead of cold calling, asking for a name and postcode, and finding the
address from a postal code CD-ROM, just look in an ordinary telephone directory.
Would Butler consider this a security risk as well?

Witham, Essex

Issue no. 2149 published 29 August 1998

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