If you have to provide cookies to get data, then how it is a privacy breach? Typically no one other than you has the cookies.
GHunt – An OSINT tool to extract information about a Google account
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Re: GHunt – An OSINT tool to extract information about a Google account
#42I’ve had the chance to use Gatsby, Next, Nuxt and Hugo out of all the above my preference is Nuxt but it lacks graphQL. I’ve also used Gridsome which I love problem is I can’t really recommend it because I’m pretty sure the project is becoming abandoned... their official twitter account hasn’t posted anything since Sept. 2019 and there’s very few pushes to the repository which is a shame because it would have been my…
you probably meant to post it here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24670252
I did thank you!
Re: GHunt – An OSINT tool to extract information about a Google account
#43I’ve had the chance to use Gatsby, Next, Nuxt and Hugo out of all the above my preference is Nuxt but it lacks graphQL. I’ve also used Gridsome which I love problem is I can’t really recommend it because I’m pretty sure the project is becoming abandoned... their official twitter account hasn’t posted anything since Sept. 2019 and there’s very few pushes to the repository which is a shame because it would have been my…
>Would love to see a Svelte SSG (Sapper’s nice but no movement there either). Check out Elder.js
Will check it out, thank you!
Re: GHunt – An OSINT tool to extract information about a Google account
#44Re: GHunt – An OSINT tool to extract information about a Google account
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh, my. Not a personal attack, for sure. Why? It just seemed a bit obvious to me. If I post a review, with my account, I have been there, right? And if I post a lot of reviews month after month in a certain place, I probably live there, right? This has nothing to do about being tech savvy. It's not about IP geolocation or recognizing user locations from random photos. I understand the OSINT part as well. But the tool…
> Why? > Don't post reviews all around where you live, then. Again, I don't mind, as I know letters without tone of voice are tough to interpret (and you don't seem to be downvoted anymore). But because you're using the imperative (I hope I use that word right), it can come across accusatory. It's possible that some people then imagine a bit of a negative tone of voice in such a statement. I know I do, and then I rem…
> I don't see them immediately realizing that filling out Google reviews would leave them exposed in such a way.
I have that kind of family members as well. But they don't leave reviews on Google Maps, because they wouldn't know how to do that or why. And their home address is still on the White Pages, so.... I don't think it's a problem for them.
The question is: is there somebody who is a) able to use Google Maps - which implies a rough understanding of how it works - and b) able to leave reviews about a place they have been, that is then unable to realize that a review says "I have been there at that time" and that multiple reviews may suggest the (approximate) place where they live?
Re: GHunt – An OSINT tool to extract information about a Google account
#46Slightly tangentially, I haven't read anything by Kevin Mitnick for 20 years, but his whole thing on social engineering feels related to putting together innocuous bits of information that add up to more than the sum of their parts.
I have been at several companies where their competitive advantage was something extremely simple and basic that their competitors could do, but just hadn't twigged.
For example, in the pub one night, there were a couple of friendly competitors and one was complaining that they had the same machines but couldn't get the same output we did. My mate nearly blurted out that, "well, we just use the standard recommended XXX" but his boss gave him a kick just before he did. The competitors were simply cutting costs by not using the standard recommended XXX and that was literally the only thing that borked their quality, and yet they hadn't picked up on it.
The point is, the stuff that seems without value to you may be of incredible value to others. We have stated this time and time again on HN when it comes to privacy and data protection and yet I still need to see stuff like GHunt to remind me.
It's fun and scary to see how little tidbits of information are both easily available and easily linked. Assuming it works.