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the dictionaries of the interwebs disagree with you

Would you not consider your personal information compromised if someone posted your name, address, date of birth and social security number in a public place? What term works better for you?

com?pro?mise .

noun
4. an endangering, esp. of reputation; exposure to danger, suspicion, etc.: a compromise of one's integrity.
verb (used with object)
6. to expose or make vulnerable to danger, suspicion, scandal, etc.; jeopardize: a military oversight that compromised the nation's defenses.

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, ? Random House, Inc. 2006.

v. com?pro?mised, com?pro?mis?ing, com?pro?mis?es

v. tr.
1. To expose or make liable to danger, suspicion, or disrepute: a secret mission that was compromised and had to be abandoned; compromise one's standing in the community.

The American Heritage? Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright ? 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

verb
3. expose or make liable to danger, suspicion, or disrepute; "The nuclear secrets of the state were compromised by the spy"

WordNet? 3.0, ? 2006 by Princeton University.

verb
2. To put to hazard, by some indiscretion; to endanger; to compromise; as, to compromit the honor or the safety of a nation.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, ? 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/compromise

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