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Have you ever tried to dox yourself?
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Akhenaten
Heretic Pharaoh
I just googled my name and got about 20 million hits.
Sideroxylon
Featherless biped
My name is like that.
Akhenaten
Heretic Pharaoh
Yay! We're legends!
Donn
Philosopher
GlennB, just like a batman rap video and bask in the shame with me. 
Skeptic Ginger
Nasty Woman
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I'm not getting anything either. I do get address and phone listings with my name and my business name, but nothing with my username except JREF posts.
It seems that Twitter and FB are some of the biggest privacy offenders. Most sites keep your email private. If one is getting FB and Twitter accounts by searching one's email address, the address is not private.
GlennB, just like a batman rap video and bask in the shame with me.
uh ... batman ... rap ... video ...
Is it OK if I just remain anonymous?
xterra
So far, so good...
Would someone please try to find me.
I'll give you a hint: I am not a vehicle.
I'll give you a hint: I am not a vehicle.
DarthFishy
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Yikes. Searched for my handle and location. Very first result has my full name (and I link to so really really bad poetry I did some time back).
The shame!
Ironically if you search for my full name and location, you only get a picture of my avatar (on the first page). My full name is extremely common.
The shame!
Ironically if you search for my full name and location, you only get a picture of my avatar (on the first page). My full name is extremely common.
Donn
Philosopher
Yeah, this thread has been cold water to the face. I'm glad, for all SA's faults, that I live in a free country (for now :O) that does not persecute atheists or skeptics.
ComfySlippers
Banned
Finding information about people is incredibly easy.
But mostly it is down to luck.
It has relatively little to do with "not leaving a trace" as a whole oak tree, complete with every branch, twig and leaf can be discovered with only a cursory knowledge of which key is next to Q on the keyboard.
At the same time, armed with a plethora of information it can become a futile exercise.
Privacy laws in The Uk are somewhat stricter than those in The US.
But with a little patience it is very easy to gain information that should, in theory, be unavailable to the general public.
A fascinating topic that I wish hadn't gone under my radar.
But mostly it is down to luck.
It has relatively little to do with "not leaving a trace" as a whole oak tree, complete with every branch, twig and leaf can be discovered with only a cursory knowledge of which key is next to Q on the keyboard.
At the same time, armed with a plethora of information it can become a futile exercise.
Privacy laws in The Uk are somewhat stricter than those in The US.
But with a little patience it is very easy to gain information that should, in theory, be unavailable to the general public.
A fascinating topic that I wish hadn't gone under my radar.
DevilsAdvocate
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Tsukasa Buddha
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Through Googling, I found connections exactly where I placed them.
There are sites like Spokeo or pipl that aggregate this sort of thing, with more detailed but non-free results.
There are sites like Spokeo or pipl that aggregate this sort of thing, with more detailed but non-free results.
Meed
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DevilsAdvocate
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Pup
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Or you could have just looked on the JREF Forums.
Out of curiosity, if you didn't already know his real name or recall that post, what search string would you use to find it?
Gord_in_Toronto
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Apparently there are a number of "gordintoronto"'s. The only Gord_in_Toronto is here on the JREFF.
My name IRL is absolutely unique in the Whole Wide World. Just Googling it produces 11,300,000 results because my last name is a phrase in a non-English language. You have to do a lot of filtering to extract the true me.
With quotes it results in 28 hits but misses some because I often use just an initial for my first name. Included are an old address and phone number, a single post that leaked to the Internet from a supposedly closed forum and the name of a famous dead science fiction writer.
My name IRL is absolutely unique in the Whole Wide World. Just Googling it produces 11,300,000 results because my last name is a phrase in a non-English language. You have to do a lot of filtering to extract the true me.
With quotes it results in 28 hits but misses some because I often use just an initial for my first name. Included are an old address and phone number, a single post that leaked to the Internet from a supposedly closed forum and the name of a famous dead science fiction writer.
LSSBB
Devilish Dictionarian
Good luck getting info on me by just my JREF handle. Even adding the location won't help much, as far as I can tell. Nor will the information in my profile. If you got me, please PM me. You can pick up many hints from my posts though that might get you there.