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Re: Anonymity....

It's application of commonsense. Give details you feel comfortable with, but if someone starts hounding newbies to fill in bios, I will continue to point out to them the possible hazards of doing so. People can fill in bios based on an understanding of the possible hazards and make their own minds up,. It's called informed choice
 
Re: Anonymity....

I just cannot resist.... what can you tell about me, that I havent already made public. I would truly be interested if you could pick up any, let us say, 'vibes' of a private nature.

The gauntlet is down...
 
DeeGee\'s bio

The issue is what you've made public in various places. A search engine can put a lot of info together from totally disparate sources, including things lurking around the net for years. Effectively any personal info on the web is public domain.

Anyway don't worry, you don't have a Yorkshire surname - that's Grabbitall. Check your PM!

Regards

D
 
Re: DeeGee\'s bio

Search engines aren't the half of it.

It's more about being able to search public databases and string things together. For example, companies house has a lot of info on limited companies, accounts, directorships etc.

As for those that have access to the non-public stuff, you just don't want to know, apart from that it would be a very bad idea to annoy people from the HM Revenue and Customs, parts of the MOD, etc.

dv.
 
Re: Oh, not that old Evergreen....

Just to see if he could find more than the obvious old Google stuff. Hopping around the obvious places... but can he tell me why I did 14 years?
 
Re: Oh, not that old Evergreen....

See pm for your wifes name and rough age, where you went to school, your national service career hong kong, electronics, principal lecturer in london etc etc

Also you home address, your yacht club and so forth. I could probably dig much much deeper, but don't really have time at the moment.

Much of this information will be out of date, if you are off cruising and no longer resident in the UK, but it gives me the basis to obtain birth and marriage certificates, and search for any directorships you've held, and check credit and employment as a lecturer etc etc - loads of info there for a more thorough check.
 
Re: Oh, not that old Evergreen....

To be fair Brendan, while that sound frightening, it is not much more added detail than getting a telephone directory and using the electoral register.

Cloning is nothing new and the risk is no greater now than it was pre interweb.

How many mailing companies have enough info on you to apply for a visa, most I would suspect, and junk mail on the welcome mat is definitely not a new phenomena.

A guy in work who found a post I made on a newsgroup decided to do a trawl on me, found out my Girlfriends name (on my site) that I lived in Cheshire, etc etc. Put it to me in the canteen in such a way that I should tremble about my privacy.

Basically the answer was so.....

Nothing he found out could not have been gleaned from a quick friendly introduction and chat in a pub or as said a telephone book (though I am ex D)

If you could get my work details (you know some from what I have said, but get confidential info) my medical records, bank details (or even the branch) I would be impressed. You would have to live life as a hermit to be so anonymous to keep every detail secret and then why?

Maybe I am being naive, but fer Christs sake, finding a spouses name is covered in the deans introduction speech in Private Investigator college.
 
Re: Oh, not that old Evergreen....

I've never said this is special secret stuff. It's just what you can get by publicly available information. It often amazes the subject that so much info available, or am I missing the point?

I give away a huge amount of info about myself, though I do so in knowledge that it is available. Many people do not have this knowledge, and don't understand how the internet works.

All I'm doing is pointing out the weaknesses of giving away information to those less skilled in internet searching. Many people don't realise how much informtation they give away - you may realise it, as I do, but many many more do not?
 
Re: Anonymity....

Now there's an interesting posting.

I am not totally ignorant of such matters and suspect that you cannot do it infallibly.

Why not send me a text message?
 
Re: Anonymity....

Of course I can't do it infallibly. I'm only going on little clues I can piece together, but I've done it several times over the years to prove a point, so not going to spend a lot more time on it - not least wise because you bio is empty, so nowhere to start, without going back through all your posts to see what clues you've given away, and I've better things to do this evening.
 
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