That's why I always tweet 'In closet, with gun' before I leave the house.
If that were true, then we'd still know when to rob your house : )
Maybe not, perhaps he also tweets 'In closet, with gun' when he's in the closet, with a gun?
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
If that were true, then we'd still know when to rob your house : )
Maybe not, perhaps he also tweets 'In closet, with gun' when he's in the closet, with a gun?
Then again, he might also tweet that he is on vacation while sitting on the closet, with gun..
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#35Most of this data is completely useless, because there's no way to tell where these users live, at least without a serious amount of stalking and sleuthing. Unless , of course, they've been geotagging their tweets from a mobile device. In which case it would then be trivial to look at their most frequent location, determine it's a residential one, wait until they're out, and head on over. Which is why I will never en…
I searched for my city, and found the most recent listing on the site. Clicked through to that Twitter user's profile, then to their website which was about yoga classes. On her yoga website, she lists her home address. It's in the WHOIS data of her domain too.
Chances are it's not that rare to be able to get an address for someone that's connected enough to be tweeting their location all the time.
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#36To be fair, pretty much every single person with a job leaves their home empty all day. Everyone already knows this. I can't wait until I get to read about someone who decided to rob one of these people, but then gets shot to death by the spring gun they set up. Bonus if the spring gun auto-uploads to YouTube.
True but it's much safer to rob a house when you know they won't be home for a longer period of time. Or when you know they won't just pop back cause they forgot something.
Really takes a lot of the risk out of it.
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#37To be fair, pretty much every single person with a job leaves their home empty all day. Everyone already knows this. I can't wait until I get to read about someone who decided to rob one of these people, but then gets shot to death by the spring gun they set up. Bonus if the spring gun auto-uploads to YouTube.
Regarding spring guns, fun fact: it is illegal for you to make your home unsafe for burglars and other lawbreakers in most US states.
This is true, I forget where but a few years back a burglar sued a homeowner and won because he entered a cabin and a springloaded shotgun blew off his leg
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#38Having worked for a Defense Contractor and been forced to go through social engineering training in the past, the idea of gathering information like this is very real and happens everyday. Hopefully this makes people think twice before exposing certain personal information online for all to see.
>social engineering training Was the class actually worthwhile, or was it just CYA? Some sort of taxonomy/formalisms for thinking about social engineering would be cool. I have no structured mental model now.
It's probably more like social engineering defense training. The usual scenario being: You're at a conference and a hooker type shows up at your hotel room out of the blue, do you a) invite them in and have a good time, especially leaving your laptop/files/etc alone with them while you sleep/clean up/get some liquor, b) not do that.
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#39To be fair, pretty much every single person with a job leaves their home empty all day. Everyone already knows this. I can't wait until I get to read about someone who decided to rob one of these people, but then gets shot to death by the spring gun they set up. Bonus if the spring gun auto-uploads to YouTube.
Regarding spring guns, fun fact: it is illegal for you to make your home unsafe for burglars and other lawbreakers in most US states.
More generally, boobytrapping stuff has lots of potential harm to lots of potential people. (gas company employees, police, etc). The fact that it's also harmful to thiefs is tangential.
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#40Interesting to see an elegant, functional, web app that is essentially an artistic statement.