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A good example of how the internet is not compareable to real life. Whenever someone handwaves "but that's always happened" In person, the chance of a local pe
by aaron695 6y ago
A good example of how the internet is not compareable to real life. Whenever someone handwaves "but that's always happened"
In person, the chance of a local person traveling to your house to photograph a cheque is non-existent.
On the internet you can script a search of all homes. Its all about the ability to search quickly.
I see companies are getting photos of my front door now when packages get delivered. I wonder what we can get from that....
- munk-a 6y agoMaybe put a QR code on your door and see where you get hits from? Alternatively set up a honeypot by gluing a fake bill to your mailbox as if it's a letter dangling out with some personal information on the envelope? It'd be interesting to see if anyone is running any automatic extraction over pictures of mailboxes.
- cmeacham98 6y ago> A good example of how the internet is not compareable to real life. Whenever someone handwaves "but that's always happened" > In person, the chance of a local person traveling to your house to photograph a cheque is non-existent. This is the digital version of an open house. The same mitigation that prevents this behavior from happening in real life (i.e. setting up the house in a way where guests can't see your personal info) would have fixed the problem here. I can personally guarantee that criminals target physical "real life" open houses too, as it happened to someone I know. I suppose the internet does make it lower effort to exploit (especially from across the world), but it's at least 'comparable' in my opinion.