Come on guys & girls...fill-in your details!

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Well quite impressed...

I mean it was a very creditable attempt, just got very out of date info, but you did get the name of my ISP right.

Popped out to a bar for a few vodka's and returned to find that all hell had broken loose on this thread. Apologies if my responses are not coherent any more (if they ever were).

Sorry but even if your information had been correct (which I admit it easily could have been), it wouldn't have been confidential information that I would have been concerned about. Letters are flying around all over the place with people's addresses on, but no one seems to regard these envelopes as a security threat. Too much,

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Re: Well quite impressed...

All just a bit of fun Simon, but just goes to show what a bunch of bored boaters can do on a Saturday night out of season. Just think what the pros can get up to.

I agree with you about the stuff not on the web that we don't worry about and throw out with the rubbish every day - I've had a shredder for household stuff for years - it is much more of a threat.

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I'm not offended at all, of course! Especially as it ended up in the wrong country... /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif Challenge: can anyone manage an aerial photo of my building in Krakow?

Like you, I tend to be a little paranoid about what I drop in the rubbish - especially things like bank statements, I don't like criminal types getting my bank account details even though logically I know that there is nothing they can do with it.

I don't have any curtains, but opposite there's a nunnery, so like to provide the poor dears some entertainment /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 

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Don't worry, I did do that, and hence why I mentioned earlier in thread that it was not necessarily where you lived. Only messing at a very superficial level here. All I was doing was demonstrating to the larger audience, the amount of information available to casual observers, I didn't say it was necessarily accurate in this case.

A proper search would have corroborated many more pieces of information rather than just looking at web registration, but would have taken a lot longer.
 

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Of course Brendan (that can't be your real name can it!!) if you do call for a cuppa, you'll be revealing your true identity (shock and horror). See U soon.
 

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Oh don't worry, it is. Brendan Spillane. Ask any of the Cherbourg trip contingent (2 years running), Wokingham and Berkshire meets, Mercury Meets (I've organised 2 years running, this will be third, and you'd be most welcome to come meet about 160 odd forumites and family there 7/8 May), Poole and Wareham meets etc etc etc. I know and have met many of the forumites over the past few years at meets and individualy.

Having said that, expect half a dozen or so jokers to now jump in and claim I'm not me! <G>
 
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Well it could easily have been accurate - it was accurate, but for being old. But the same level of information could have been found by looking in the telephone book, if only you knew which area phone book to look in.

A couple of times in the past I've had to commission investigative agencies to find out background detail on certain people (business-related, not personal). In some ways what they came up with was very impressive, in other ways sadly lacking and basic. But from what I remember much of the best information that they derived seemed to be obtained through personal contacts, a relatively low level of detail through monitoring-post-type activity.
 

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Is that Mercury Marina, Hamble? Might just do that.
Anyway...that's enough for me on this topic for tonight (yawn).
Cheers...
 

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Och Jamesie
- ah transferred tae ra Queens Royal Herbacious Borderers - weed quite a bit o' undercover wairk then sae - ma trail shuid gang a bit hazy frae there
 

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Personal contact is often the best way and much is surprisingly simple. You never know if someone you don't know, knows you.

There was an instance of a local politician (not here) who alleged bugging and all sorts of subterfuge when information about him was revealed. It was all obtained by an anonymous looking chap who sat in the pub, just down the road from his council meeting on the second Tuesday of every month. The politician adjourned there in "safe" company after each meeting speaking unguardedly. Never did work it out for himself.

(Oh, and already looked at Krakow but need a bit more time, my Polish isn't good enough - how far are you away from the YMCA building?)
 

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OK guys, keep up the momenutum, only a few more posts, and bluedragon goes into the record books as instigator of a 'tonner'

Yes, personal is def best. Hence my suggestion that I call Vic's wife, when he set me the challenge of finding elder daughters surname. You can do only so much from web searches. What is amazing though is what you can find doing online searches of website registrations, Companies House, birth and wedding registrations, electoral roles(this more limited in the past couple of years) etc etc
 

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Yep, on the Hamble. There will be a forum set up specially for it nearer the time, so keep a look out.
 
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Very good /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif About 80m North-(East) of the YMCA building. On the other side of the nunnery I mentioned, if you can see that.
 
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Lucky I have a second bottle in the freezer /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif No need to rush, I need a few minutes to recover from the first one /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 

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Getting back to the original comment . Location of your boat or at least country of residance plus aprox size of boat and of course the presence or otherwise of engines and or sails. olewill
 

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Challenge: can anyone manage an aerial photo of my building in Krakow?

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Sorry, but delayed by other distractions, but here's a satellite one. Can't zoom in very far without paying for the higher quality (you can pay to go down to about 18" resolution), but a good approximation - you can see where the old town is to the south of the arrow surrounded by the very visible Planty Gardens with the Stare Miasti (central market square) just off centre, the railway station to west, and just under the arrow head is where the ymca is, and the winding river very clear.

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bit of the a bugger finding the right references and co-ordinates in Polish rather than English though. Think I'll stick to spying on people in english speaking countries from now on!
 

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To go back to the original question, and maybe give more clarification now you are near the magic 100. If you stick around here long enough, you will get a gut feel for those posters who are genuine, and give good advice.

This varies by field of experience, and also which forums they post on. Mirelle is considered pretty much tops on anything to do with wooden boats or commercial shipping. Tcm, Jimi, parahandy, claymore and the likes just speak gibberish in the hope that someone will pay attention, everyone else is just as clueless as you and me. That pretty much sorts it out really
 

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... I do not see how what is posted on this forum it is going to help them rob my identity ...

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There are 2 points which have been alluded to, but not openly stated:

1) The sheer number of people that the information is available to - millions & millions - the actual posters here (maybe with one or two exceptions /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif ) are the least of our worries.

Yes, the same information is available on envelopes, boat, etc. but to many fewer people, most of whom are in (very) broadly similar circumstances to yourself. Any that are not tend to stand out and be regarded as "suspicious".

2) Information linkage - the internet makes it very easy to pull together incomplete snippets of information to form a comprehensive set of personal information.

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The encryption on my bank accounts is pretty serious and they would be unlikely to crack it...

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Agreed, but people don't have to - A frequent "security" question when dealing with banks, etc. is to ask for the first line of your address. From personal experience, if you forget the answer to other questions, the person will prompt you, or even accept a general description of your circumstances. You are probably also aware of the success of "phishing", or trojan programmes that send details of what buttons you push on your computer to someone else.

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My feeling is we are all getting a little paranoid

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Maybe, but (if you haven't done so already) run a spyware detector on your computer.

FWIW, there's limited info in my profile, but more significantly, I've stopped using Microsoft Internet Explorer - it's a security nightmare.

And anyway, just because you're paranoid it doesn't mean they're not out to get you!

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