[Techtalk] Getting names and addresses of forum users

[Meredydd Luff]

Results so far:

Walt (pippin at fred.net) did a nice Google-assisted investigation. He 
successfully found my email, instant messenger contact information, websites, 
and a commercial product I contributed to, as well as the name of someone 
with the same surname as me (who happened to be my brother). Thorough as this 
was, it only turned up information I had deliberately placed in the public 
domain.

Miriam (aka /dev/null) made me nervous. She successfully identified my 
machine and username, as well as several of the services I run. However, the 
nervous-making thing was the way she successfully named my school 
administrator, my street address, and even my housemaster's phone number. 
However, none of that information was actually under my control (from the DNS 
registry I think), and the rest was also what I consider public domain 
(although not all was stuff I had explicitly published there).

This has really become very interesting indeed - anyone else interested in 
trying?

Meredydd

On Thursday 19 September 2002 11:42, Meredydd Luff wrote:
> OK...
>
> I would like to challenge anyone who feels like it to retrieve as much
> information on me as they can. My general privacy policy is that I don't
> reveal much more than you can find from my school email address - I'd like
> to put that to the test :-)
>
> Meredydd

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