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Comment by xwolfi | Hacker News Reader

Well it's not a prison but it's a big group of people reaching compromises to make it safer for everyone else. Look at it this way: if nobody knows your address, not even the people guaranteeing property law, someone could enter your house, get you to fuck right off, and you'd end up naked in the street with everyone asking where's your proof you live there.

Simplification sure, but you started.

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My landlord and I have a signed lease which can be produced on demand. No other party need have the information in advance, especially not those who claim the authority to enforce property rights.

Courts enforcing notional rights weeks or months later can’t get you un-murdered in your sleep by home invaders. Did we all forget that swatting is a thing?

The place that you sleep is secret, and you should never tell it to anyone that isn’t an invited guest, especially not apps or the DMV. Every other data leak can nominally be mitigated with time, inconvenience, or expense, but violence to your person or your children cannot be un-done after the fact.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1274747

How does one keep your address secret from the DMV?

I guess if you are rich enough you could rent an additional studio that you don't actually sleep in 99% of the time but technically is one of your residences, and give that address to the DMV.

When the DMV leaks your info to all your stalkers and crooks on the internet and they come after you they won't find you there.

This is the most airtight way if you have money to burn, but most everyone I know just uses a postbox (not a PO box but a private one) like full-time RVers/vanlife people do.

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