http://jd-science.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] jd-science.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] davis_square2009-04-12 01:29 am
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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.
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[identity profile] tooffdk.livejournal.com 2009-04-12 06:12 am (UTC)(link)
www.intelius.com ?

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

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

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

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

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

[identity profile] badseed1980.livejournal.com 2009-04-12 02:28 pm (UTC)(link)
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

[identity profile] nvidia99999.livejournal.com 2009-04-12 02:40 pm (UTC)(link)
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

[identity profile] first-clark.livejournal.com 2009-04-12 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

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

Re: Disinformation is normal

[identity profile] nvidia99999.livejournal.com 2009-04-12 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] jd-science.livejournal.com 2009-04-12 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks, all, and esp. to Ron for the link to the original post.
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