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DEC 30, 2004 10:21 PM
socalsk1nhead said:
Thanks. I was just a little annoyed and wondered at what lengths this person went to find this out and wondering what other info he might have.
It's pretty freakin' easy. As an example, I've taken a username from a message board and within an hour I had where they worked (address and phone number), what kind of music they listened to, their current home phone number and address, their past home phone number and address, their real name, the real names of some of that person's friends, and a brief bio of that person. 
No, I didn't do anything with the information. The person had just challenged me with "YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ME," so I had to prove them wrong. 
DEC 30, 2004 10:37 PM
socalsk1nhead said:
Sorry. Not my initials and have never lived in the south. My birthdate was the only stuff I wondered how he could have found. everythign else I was able to look up but any combination of my name, initials, and birthdate showed nothing.
yeah, i didn't think most of that was true after more research. but the birthdate was easy. it's on your SG profile 
but with a last name and state, you could do a white pages lookup on the net, which often gives the phone and sometimes address. there are reverse lookup sites out there that will give an address for a phone number. if you have a website, you'll want to make sure any addresses and stuff are hidden, because those are made public in the whois databases of web domains (that's how i got the georgia thing and the name CN, the guy who i guess is in charge of the website you listed as your homepage.
it's scary what's out there. my rule is, when doing anything online, never assume you're anonymous, since you never know what psycho is out there and what they can find out.
DEC 30, 2004 10:43 PM
Shalome said:
socalsk1nhead said:
Thanks. I was just a little annoyed and wondered at what lengths this person went to find this out and wondering what other info he might have.
It's pretty freakin' easy. As an example, I've taken a username from a message board and within an hour I had where they worked (address and phone number), what kind of music they listened to, their current home phone number and address, their past home phone number and address, their real name, the real names of some of that person's friends, and a brief bio of that person. No, I didn't do anything with the information. The person had just challenged me with "YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ME," so I had to prove them wrong.
And how the hell did you manage all that?
DEC 30, 2004 11:44 PM
ProfZoom said:
Shalome said:
socalsk1nhead said:
Thanks. I was just a little annoyed and wondered at what lengths this person went to find this out and wondering what other info he might have.
It's pretty freakin' easy. As an example, I've taken a username from a message board and within an hour I had where they worked (address and phone number), what kind of music they listened to, their current home phone number and address, their past home phone number and address, their real name, the real names of some of that person's friends, and a brief bio of that person. No, I didn't do anything with the information. The person had just challenged me with "YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ME," so I had to prove them wrong.
And how the hell did you manage all that?
Used Google to find other places the person had posted under the same name, including where they'd posted some pictures that were hosted on their own webserver (which was obvious by the server name -- it was the same as the username. Found the server by right-clicking the image and checking the properties.). From there, I visited the webserver and poked around, found the person's resume, checked the server WHOIS records, then used Google to find out more information about the person based on everything I'd found already.
It's really pretty amazing what you can find out from info that's on the internet.
[Edited on Dec 30, 2004 by Shalome]
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Flannery
Havertown, PA
March 2004
DEC 30, 2004 09:36 PM