database?

Apr. 12th, 2009 01:29 am
[identity profile] jd-science.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] davis_square
I remember several months (or more) ago, someone was looking for a person on LJ. Someone else replied with a search from some crazy database that had all kinds of addresses and info. I looked myself up at the time and was shocked at how easy it was to find all my previous addresses. Does anyone remember this, and can you point me to that database again?

Thanks.

Date: 2009-04-12 06:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tooffdk.livejournal.com
www.intelius.com ?

Date: 2009-04-12 09:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] neorock.livejournal.com
http://www.123people.com

Date: 2009-04-12 11:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] girlgonemad.livejournal.com
http://www.zabasearch.com/ ?

Date: 2009-04-12 02:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] turil.livejournal.com
It's all simply based on public records. Phone books, birth certificates, etc. Now it's just been made easier to look up.

Date: 2009-04-12 02:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] badseed1980.livejournal.com
Yup, it's surprising how much information is publicly available, perfectly legally.

Date: 2009-04-12 02:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] turil.livejournal.com
Why surprising? I'm actually surprised that more information isn't available.

Date: 2009-04-12 02:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] badseed1980.livejournal.com
I think a lot of people don't realize how easy it is to find out all kinds of stuff about them online. I know that in other countries, it's nowhere near as easy.

What you need to do is feed disinformation

Date: 2009-04-12 02:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nvidia99999.livejournal.com
About yourself to as many vendors etc as possible. That information will be mixed in with the real one with time, and nobody else will be able distinguish the two.

Disinformation is normal

Date: 2009-04-12 06:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] first-clark.livejournal.com
Considering how needle-in-a-haystack-like my true info seems to be when I use all these services for an egoscan, someone seeking me who didn't already know the answers would be lost a long time.

Re: Disinformation is normal

Date: 2009-04-12 08:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nvidia99999.livejournal.com
Even better then. Also, if EVERYBODY typed in every day certain dangerous keywords in Google searches, a lot of the NSA sniffing based on keywords would become pretty useless.

Date: 2009-04-12 07:18 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] ron_newman
Here's the previous post on this subject, from November 2008.

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