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My missus started a new job recently, she was curious about her boss and it took me about 5 minutes to find his address and house on google maps. That's soddin

My missus started a new job recently, she was curious about her boss and it took me about 5 minutes to find his address and house on google maps. That's sodding terrifying.

chmsky00 5y ago
5 minutes, huh? In the 90s, I found a bosses address in the yellow pages in seconds, then called him at home on a Sunday, to chat the end of a football game. Now I hate my boss and love random folks online. Weird.
Taylor_OD 5y ago
Was trying to find a friends address to send them a surprise gift. It was weird how easy it was.
- laurent92 5y ago
  Have you seen these websites which bring up everything that was available in the past about someone? Past names and emails on Facebook, photos and geolocation of the EXIF data on a map… Purely by tracking Tweets and Facebook posts and keeping history.
  - anonporridge 5y ago
    truthfinder.com is one I've used. It's a paid service, and it presents like a scammy site at first glance, but it's legit. Lookup your own name to prove it to yourself. It has information about my past that even I forgot about. What's especially disconcerting is how fast your physical address leaks out. Within a couple of months moving to a new rental, they have my address down to the apartment number even though I never publish that publicly anywhere. I assume they ingest large data breaches. We really need a kind of DNS for physical addresses. Abstract your physical address behind an fixed virtual one and only allow authorized parties to resolve the address. This would also be hugely helpful for people that move around a lot, since you'd never have to update your mailing address with any vendor ever again.
    - dwaltrip 5y ago
      Ooh I had the DNS idea for addresses a few years ago… I would love for that to exist! Updating addresses is such a pain in the ass.
    - nly 5y ago
      Snail mail forwarding services exist... but a lot of companies won't mail stuff to them.
xur17 5y ago
If you know roughly what area someone lives in, county auditor websites have a lot of information.
- noir_lord 5y ago
  Similar, companies house in the UK, I looked him up to see what directorships he held then I looked those companies up, one was registered from his home address and done.
1vuio0pswjnm7 5y ago
Not to someone living and working in a small town.

My missus started a new job recently, she was curious about her boss and it took me about 5 minutes to find his address and house on google maps. That's sodding terrifying.

chmsky00 5y ago

5 minutes, huh? In the 90s, I found a bosses address in the yellow pages in seconds, then called him at home on a Sunday, to chat the end of a football game. Now I hate my boss and love random folks online. Weird.

Taylor_OD 5y ago

Was trying to find a friends address to send them a surprise gift. It was weird how easy it was.

laurent92 5y ago
Have you seen these websites which bring up everything that was available in the past about someone? Past names and emails on Facebook, photos and geolocation of the EXIF data on a map… Purely by tracking Tweets and Facebook posts and keeping history.
- anonporridge 5y ago
  truthfinder.com is one I've used. It's a paid service, and it presents like a scammy site at first glance, but it's legit. Lookup your own name to prove it to yourself. It has information about my past that even I forgot about. What's especially disconcerting is how fast your physical address leaks out. Within a couple of months moving to a new rental, they have my address down to the apartment number even though I never publish that publicly anywhere. I assume they ingest large data breaches. We really need a kind of DNS for physical addresses. Abstract your physical address behind an fixed virtual one and only allow authorized parties to resolve the address. This would also be hugely helpful for people that move around a lot, since you'd never have to update your mailing address with any vendor ever again.
  - dwaltrip 5y ago
    Ooh I had the DNS idea for addresses a few years ago… I would love for that to exist! Updating addresses is such a pain in the ass.
  - nly 5y ago
    Snail mail forwarding services exist... but a lot of companies won't mail stuff to them.

xur17 5y ago

If you know roughly what area someone lives in, county auditor websites have a lot of information.

noir_lord 5y ago
Similar, companies house in the UK, I looked him up to see what directorships he held then I looked those companies up, one was registered from his home address and done.

1vuio0pswjnm7 5y ago

Not to someone living and working in a small town.