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I took a look at my own user names and it's pretty obvious that the results here are mostly worthless. So many people with empty blogs and the same user name.
by jbm 4y ago
I took a look at my own user names and it's pretty obvious that the results here are mostly worthless.
So many people with empty blogs and the same user name. Unless the blog is auto-created, I don't see the point.
I do find all the .ru tags to be concerning. I can imagine out-of-touch security types at Paypal deciding to sanction me based on it without any recourse.
- basicplus2 4y agoUnless all your user names are your email address
- vosper 4y agoYeah I've seen a similar tool fail hard on any wiki site that returns a placeholder page for any username whether or not it actually exists. I've never seen anything except 95% false positives, which is so many that after a few runs you just ignore the tool.
- GoblinSlayer 4y agoPaypal is a private company, it can sanction you for lulz too.
- hnbad 4y agoIt's mostly worthless but the recursive search via aliases can give some interesting insights. I ran it on my GitHub username and while the result ended up linking me to countries I have never been to (probably via a yandex account as the username is very common and a lot of the profiles were of other people) it did include my full name and cities I've lived in. It seems the most "dangerous" link in my case was Gravatar. Interestingly, searching by e-mail gave the most garbage results, likely because most services don't expose the e-mail address directly. I guess it's an advantage that neither my usernames nor my legal name are particularly unique.