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NYC generates hash-anonymised data dump, which gets reversed There are about 1000*26**3 = 21952000 or 22M possible medallion numbers. So, by calculating the md5 hashes of all these numbers (only 24M!), one can completely deanonymise the entire data. Modern computers are fast: so fast that computing the 24M hashes…