Sorry Stan. You are a nice guy but, in this case, you are being very very naive.
I take your denial as a challenge. Google-Fu is my superpower. :) The poster you are referring to goes by "zackiedawg" on boards.cruisecritic.com His join date was Sept 2004 and he has 2195 post there. If ThIS post is any indication, one may find out more about his personal life by registering for the site, clicking on his username and selecting "Find all posts by zackiedawg". One doesn't even have to do that to find out that his location is Boca Raton, FL. You see, we have a tendency to use the same username across multiple web sites, so simply Googling "zackiedawg" will give you his member page at dpreview (and with a membership you can find his posting history there where you could glean much more about him, I'm sure). If he's lying about his location, then he's also lying about it on cameralabs.com, and vwvortex.com (which he last visited today at 3:57 PM. (He has 3317 posts there and drives a 2015 Audi Allroad.) His pbase page gives us his actual name. Fortunately for him, his name is sort of generic so you can't just plug in his name and find his address (for free anyway). There are sites where you could buy a membership and get full reports on anybody you want - so a professional criminal could easily get full reports on all of them. Whoever had a 2015 Audi Allroad registered to him would be the dead giveaway. Each site to which someone registers has a Profile page and each profile page can contain additional clues of identity. His VWVortex page says that he is in the Financial/Insurance career. So you google his name, city and "Insurance" for example, and you find his work email and position (which I did). His office is about 15 miles from Boca Raton. His work contact page tells us that he went to Tulane University. But really the only thing you need to nail down an identity from a range of people with the same name in the same town is a middle initial or an age. Whitepages.com will often give you an exact address and even a Google map with a pin for your address. In addition, any of those message boards are potentially places for social engineering to take place. All one would have to do is engage in some forum back-and-forth or a private message to find out whatever small piece of information you need to pin down an exact identity (how old they are or what their middle name is, for example). Once you know where somebody works it is a short hop to knowing when they will be at work (not at home), whether they are married, have kids, etc. All figuring out a good time to break into the house. On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 3:22 PM, Stanley Halpin <s...@stans-photography.info> wrote: > In general I might agree Larry, Darren. However, the person whose list I > quoted is quite well hidden. The particular blog does not show real names or > emails so it would be difficult to trace back to the actual person without > breaking into the blog’s mainframe. Unless the individual at some point had a > side conversation and shared his email address in the open blog, and even > then it might be a burner special purpose email. > > As a practical issue, my biggest knock on the listing I shared is that it is > not very helpful; too detailed, just a data dump, inadequately formatted, no > summarization. If I were looking for someone to advise on a particular > camera/lens combo within that community, I would post a note saying “does > anybody have any experience with xx/yy camera/lens combo?" Even if I do a > Search within the blog and happen to get a hit on this guy’s note, there is > no real information there and I still need to post my question. (There is no > way to do a message directed to an individual. Unlike here in the PDML where > it is possible to see the sender’s email address.) > > stan > >> On Mar 31, 2016, at 2:53 PM, Darren Addy <pixelsmi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I agree, Larry. With all of the online info today a good Google sleuth >> can probably track down your home address with little problem AND also >> find out via your Facebook page when you will be out of town on >> business. One might as well give a thief a written invitation. >> >> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 11:43 AM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Malcolm Smith wrote: >>>> >>>> Darren Addy wrote: >>>> >>>>> To be clear, it wasn't the making of lists I was commenting on. It was >>>>> the broadcasting of them. >>>> >>>> >>>> Agreed. They do have their use for a photographer within the home, rather >>>> than on the web. >>> >>> >>> I'm sure that they are quite helpful for the shopping habits of those with >>> less scrupulous morals. >>> >>>> >>>> Malcolm >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Larry Colen l...@red4est.com (postbox on min4est) http://red4est.com/lrc >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> >> >> -- >> “The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness ” >> ― Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Earth from Above >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- “The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness ” ― Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Earth from Above -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
