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Unfortunately there are whole services offered to find said nicknames and tie the crap back to your real name. Frequently used for high profile job positions an
by softfalcon 4y ago
Unfortunately there are whole services offered to find said nicknames and tie the crap back to your real name. Frequently used for high profile job positions and their “background” checks.
- GekkePrutser 4y agoOh really?? First I've heard of it, I wasn't aware of that. That is indeed worrying. Do you have any examples? Would be good to try out. To see how much it knows about me. Also time to start rotating identities more :) It's a bit more complicated not to mix them up now because almost every email service requires a phone number and I only have so many (here in Spain you can't just buy a prepaid sim over the counter, they have this annoying registration process with photo ID that also has to be renewed every once in a while).
- softfalcon 4y agoIt’s a service offered through LinkedIn for corporate accounts. One of my former bosses was able to do a crazy level of snooping into my private life. They also were able to contact an advertising firm with it and get most of my Facebook activity. I had some albums with my drinking exploits (young and just out of college) and my boss could see it all even though he wasn’t friends with me and that info wasn’t public. He told me all of this a few weeks into the job. It was shocking just how much info he could pull on me by just being corporate and asking the right people and paying some cash/using a background check.
- GekkePrutser 4y agoThanks, too bad it's corp accounts only so I can't try it :( I wasn't aware of this, I will be more careful in the future and start cleaning up some nicks (starting with this one).
- pph 4y agoWhat could be a greater way to start a professional relationship than some cyberstalking... /s