Short and quick, The car metaphor was a counter to the transitive data bread crumbs argument suggested for thinning thin data. It was an argument against deleting a data field on the grounds that it might assist a bread crumbs trail. It was not intended to suggest more. As for a malicious fleet of cars, they leave a lot of bread crumbs and many starting points. Sam L On 2017-02-14 5:38 AM, allison nixon wrote:
This car metaphor isn't complete without also stating that some car owners purchase them for the sole purpose of running over people!
Some car owners purchase fleets of cars to run over as many people as possible. Even though they re-use their name on every single vehicle registration, the subpeona takes so long that the city can no longer automatically block the cars as they enter, and need to wait for them to run over a few people before they can do anything about it.
This metaphor has obviously been tortured past the point of absurdity, I'll leave it alone now.