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Do you have concerns about posting personal information online. I'm not talking about using your credit card online and such, but about posting very basic, non-uniquely identifying things like your name.
I frequent a popular photography forum where people post personal photos - often of their children, wives, cars, expensive electronics, etc. I suggested that posting such pictures online could make them subject to robbery or worse. Nearly everyone believed that nobody could ever find their house or identify them uniquely by posting stuff online.
I challenged them to let me see what information I could obtain about them using nothing more than what was posted in the forum and using only the internet as a tool. I was able to post satellite images of the homes of about 75% of those that took up the challenge. It surprised even me.
So, do you worry about things like this? I know a lot of folks here use their real names - something I don't do (though it wouldn't take much effort to find it). And would anybody like to see if I can find enough about them to post a satellite photo of their home?
I frequent a popular photography forum where people post personal photos - often of their children, wives, cars, expensive electronics, etc. I suggested that posting such pictures online could make them subject to robbery or worse. Nearly everyone believed that nobody could ever find their house or identify them uniquely by posting stuff online.
I challenged them to let me see what information I could obtain about them using nothing more than what was posted in the forum and using only the internet as a tool. I was able to post satellite images of the homes of about 75% of those that took up the challenge. It surprised even me.
So, do you worry about things like this? I know a lot of folks here use their real names - something I don't do (though it wouldn't take much effort to find it). And would anybody like to see if I can find enough about them to post a satellite photo of their home?