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This stuff was apparent 20 years ago when PIs gave talks at hacker cons telling them all the legal ways you could get any information you ever wanted. If you Go
by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
This stuff was apparent 20 years ago when PIs gave talks at hacker cons telling them all the legal ways you could get any information you ever wanted. If you Google around there are 500 online services (public companies, not hackers) to dig up private info for a small fee. I guess somebody just finally made a bot to make it easier.
Articles like this read to a hacker like an article that door locks aren't secure.
- cj 3y agoI mean even whitepages.com surfaces and aggregates quite a bit of public data if you buy their $20 background check, and all you need is the person's phone number.
- dfxm12 3y agoOn a tangential note, slightly less than 20 years ago I got a phone call from an ex of a girl I was seeing at the time telling me to back off. All he had to go on was my name and what college I went to. I asked him how he got my number, he said he used a service like you're describing. This has never been particularly hard for someone who was determined.
- ghaff 3y agoA lot of the deep web stuff has gone behind $20 or so paywalls so I haven't looked in a while. But, yeah, even 20 years ago it was obvious that by knowing very little about a person, especially if their name wasn't very common, you could find a huge amount of information about them.