14-05-2005 22:16									#31
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While using operators and such seems usefull, why not just use the advanced search page?

http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en

	14-05-2005 22:20									#32
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quote: Originally posted by Oerdin At another web site I visit one of the posters created a thread about how to use google's Operators in order to fine tune searches and ferret out things like MP3s, computer programs, and video files. There is also obvious uses for hackers but I'm not really interested in that. In any event I just decided to try this out by typing in the names of people I used to know and in no time I was coming up with resumes, phone numbers, addresses, family pictures, and all sorts of other personal information. It is really scary the amount of information each and everyone of us has on the net. Even with just a user name to go on I'd bet it would be possible to ferret out real names, work addresses, home addresses, phone numbers, and other stuff I really wouldn't want some internet freak getting a hold of. Now, I'm scared.

I googled my first and last name -- I could not find any private/personal information about myself from the search results.

	14-05-2005 22:24									#33
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I'm not afraid...the more widespread the information, the more widespread the knowledge of my utter brilliance

	14-05-2005 22:25									#34
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I can't find you anywhere.

	14-05-2005 22:27									#35
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quote: Originally posted by Dauphin I can't find you anywhere.

But then, I can't find any by Dauphin either.

	31-05-2005 00:58									#36
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quote: Originally posted by Ari Rahikkala That's true... I was already wondering what you had to do with getting married in the Dominican Republic .

	31-05-2005 01:28									#37
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You can find out who I really am through Google.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/homeground/archive/2003/rnli.shtml

	31-05-2005 01:32									#38
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There is private information of me on the web.
Should I care?

Nope, I don't care.
I'm more scared for crazy men in my neighbourhood then for some jerk somewhere on the web.

	31-05-2005 01:40									#39
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quote: Originally posted by Oerdin At another web site I visit one of the posters created a thread about how to use google's Operators in order to fine tune searches and ferret out things like MP3s, computer programs, and video files. There is also obvious uses for hackers but I'm not really interested in that. In any event I just decided to try this out by typing in the names of people I used to know and in no time I was coming up with resumes, phone numbers, addresses, family pictures, and all sorts of other personal information. It is really scary the amount of information each and everyone of us has on the net. Even with just a user name to go on I'd bet it would be possible to ferret out real names, work addresses, home addresses, phone numbers, and other stuff I really wouldn't want some internet freak getting a hold of. Now, I'm scared.

how do you use operators to do this?

I can't find any mention of myself at all on the internet. I'm actually happy about this, but it doesn't do my ego any good to know that my existance is unnoticed by all.

	31-05-2005 02:39									#40
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tried finding myself again.

I come up with some mention of gay girls. I'm not sure about that one

that's not me of course, as I'm not a gay girl. I see boxing, world series of poker. None of them is me.

I am in stealth mode, I cannot be detected.

	31-05-2005 04:17									#41
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident that's not me of course, as I'm not a gay girl...

Admit it, you're a lesbian, you can't help but find yourself attracted to women

	31-05-2005 04:18									#42
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try do a zabasearch.com

now THOSE search results are scary.

	31-05-2005 05:07									#43
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quote: Originally posted by Frankychan try do a zabasearch.com now THOSE search results are scary.

I don't exist.
All the Born years were no later than the 70's.

	31-05-2005 05:23									#44
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quote: Originally posted by Asher You can find out who I really am through Google. http://www.bbc.co.uk/homeground/archive/2003/rnli.shtml

	31-05-2005 08:06									#45
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Hmm... 13 out of 17 google results on my name are for me, mostly stuff from school and that time I was in the newspaper.

Apparently there's only two of us... me and a Vicodin distributor in Japan.

	31-05-2005 11:40									#46
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quote: Originally posted by Immortal Wombat archive.org knows all.

Not all, (un)fortunately.

	31-05-2005 11:42									#47
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quote: Originally posted by ixnay Rather than trying to decrypt his password hash, I simply plugged it into google, where it gave me a site that had decrypted md5 hashes, and one of the decrypted ones was his.

Isn't MD5 hashing one way?

	31-05-2005 11:44									#48
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quote: Originally posted by Locutus You'll only get a 'connection refused' error. The only way to make your harddisk accessible from the Internet is by installing a web server

Or by enabling "Files and Printer Sharing" in Windows, which is on by default on some versions.

	31-05-2005 11:46									#49
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quote: Originally posted by Provost Harrison I'm not afraid...the more widespread the information, the more widespread the knowledge of my utter brilliance

"I am not afraid, Keeper, ask me the questions."

Something like that.

	31-05-2005 12:37									#50
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quote: Originally posted by Frankychan try do a zabasearch.com now THOSE search results are scary.

My name and address does come up on this. It uses my old telephone number though. And it doesn't have my date of birth.

It says you can click the name to find more info on the internet, but that option doesn't come up on my name entries. But it does on a few others that aren't me.

	31-05-2005 12:45									#51
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quote: Originally posted by pchang There are a lot of people with the same name as me living in the same area. Google searches turn up lots of things about them, but nothing about me.

Same here. I've never found anything about me on the web.

	31-05-2005 12:46									#52
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quote: Originally posted by Ted Striker I used to post personal info online but stopped that a long time ago. Too many weirdos.

They'd hit it!