this is the kind of tool that I assumen every intelligence agency in the world already has implemented as a service for their 'agents'
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Re: Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
But this is not a problem with the tool, this is a problem with those platforms. Even if this tool is not published, bad actors can still make their own tools. I think we should rather demand the platforms to enforce better measures against this kind of usage, rather than blaming this tool.
this is not a problem with the tool, this is a problem with those platforms. It's not the missile that's the problem, it's the guy who launches the missile. Why not both?
Depends on what you mean by missile. One worth dozens of millions of USD and produced largely to prop-up a state economy tends to have different ethical considerations versus an adhoc assemblage of propane tanks and plumbing pipes produced to fight over the neighbourhood in which it was made.
Re: Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
But this is not a problem with the tool, this is a problem with those platforms. Even if this tool is not published, bad actors can still make their own tools. I think we should rather demand the platforms to enforce better measures against this kind of usage, rather than blaming this tool.
Maybe we should do both. I take an issue with the argument that bad actors can make their own tools. Bad actors can also build their own nuclear weapons, genetically engineer their own deadly diseases but there's certainly value in not making this any easier. If you take the time, money and effort away from bad actors by forcing them to reinvent the wheel, that's a good thing. Granted, this logic can't be viably appl…
That's silly. Cops are allowed to use their eyes. These platforms are the billboards they look at.
Re: Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Any openly available tool can be used by anyone for any purpose. The idea that we can pick and choose is ridiculous, and with the exception of rare cases, avoidance of building generally useful tools for the chance that bad actors will also use them is a losing proposition.
Building a tool is an ethical choice. Technology has no inherent right to exist. This is a bad project.
Technology has no rights; it is a logical abstraction describing the works of humans.
I like to think that humans have an inherint right to engage in creative work that pleases them.
Re: Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites
#55> API, CLI & Web App for analyzing & finding a person's profile across +300 social media websites > could help in investigating profiles related to suspicious or malicious activities such as cyberbullying, cybergrooming, cyberstalking, and spreading misinformation. It will much more likely be used to aid cyberbullying and cyberstalking. Those types love digging for more information by finding their targets' profiles…
Lol, exactly. This is a doxxing tool, who do you think is going to use that?
Targeted enterprise sales^W^Wspam?
Re: Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites
#56You know how sometimes people ask on HN ‘how can I use software to make world better?’, well, you just asked the opposite question.
Don’t make shit like this. I could do it too, but I’m not gonna.
Re: Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is invalid thinking. Bad actors can make such tool themselves (if they can't, they are not really that good) and have incentive to do that, so non existence will only slow them down. I don't care about analyzing other people for any purpose so I don't. Having this tool readily available lets me analyze myself and people I care about to protect them from bad actors and educate them in the process.
This is invalid thinking. I'm not familiar with the phrase "invalid thinking." Can you elaborate on how a person's thoughts can be invalid?
You are being overly literal I guess, there is nothing to explain.
Invalid line of thought sounds good ?
Try DDG next time.
Re: Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Building a tool is an ethical choice. Technology has no inherent right to exist. This is a bad project.
Technology has no rights; it is a logical abstraction describing the works of humans. I like to think that humans have an inherint right to engage in creative work that pleases them.
Police sure seem pleased thumping skulls.
Anything we can do to make it easier for them.
Re: Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites
#59Another reason to stop using social media.
Everything you've ever posted can be used against you. Plus your more likely to make friends / meet partners in this place called real life.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is invalid thinking. I'm not familiar with the phrase "invalid thinking." Can you elaborate on how a person's thoughts can be invalid?
Please keep in mind that some HNers are modeling their behavior after buggy machines and bad code and that this influences their thinking and language.
logical coherence and fallacies far pre-date computers and code