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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: twelf on August 06, 2013, 02:41 am

Title: boy look what can happen:
Post by: twelf on August 06, 2013, 02:41 am
http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=196608.0
Title: Re: boy look what can happen:
Post by: cheeto69 on August 06, 2013, 02:49 am
I still don't understand why you would ever store addresses. I understand BlueGiraffe's reasoning in wanting to keep them, but there's so many other ways to prevent customers from pulling a fast one on you like that without undermining the trust of all your customers. Why not just store the first few digits of the house/address number? For example, if my address was 420 Blazeit Lane, couldn't BlueGiraffe just put in an Excel spreadsheet "cheeto69 - 420"?

Another thing you could do which would take more time is use the USPS address standardization tool that formats addresses properly for mailing. You could encrypt/hash the person's formatted address (with GOOD encryption, obviously), and save that. Then if a customer needs a reship, have them resend their address, and use the same hash. If the encrypted strings match, then it's the same address.

As far as I can tell these ideas don't break any SR rules but if they do, I apologize and obviously don't use them lol.