It is projects like this makes people dont' want to be on any public social media. It is creepy.
Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites
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Lol, exactly. This is a doxxing tool, who do you think is going to use that?
People who dox are doing to do it anyway. This tool will make it really easy for people to find holes in their own (or their organizations) presence.
Surely you don't expect ordinary people to "find holes in their [online] presence" using this tool...
This tool is recipe for stalking.
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#83It would be wonderful if this could be used to DELETE my account across any of these sites
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#84I'm so sick of morons open sourcing abuse tools under the guise of "helping". This tool will be misused to abuse and harass more than anything else. Making these tools available to masses is dangerous.
Huh, thought you guys loved open source
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
People who dox are doing to do it anyway. This tool will make it really easy for people to find holes in their own (or their organizations) presence.
Surely you don't expect ordinary people to "find holes in their [online] presence" using this tool... This tool is recipe for stalking.
Honestly, searching for myself was the first thing that came to mind when I saw this. Although I might not be an "ordinary" person.
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
People who dox are doing to do it anyway. This tool will make it really easy for people to find holes in their own (or their organizations) presence.
Surely you don't expect ordinary people to "find holes in their [online] presence" using this tool... This tool is recipe for stalking.
People who have something to be ostracized over do this all of the time. This tool is great for someone trying to hide something about their identity (e.g. being gay).
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
Exactly. BUT, this may bring awareness to regular folks. You can also use it to remove your own stuff from said networks because people do not catalogue their online activity and it can be hard to remove your digital footprint.
I'd pay for a service that would do this, 1. Find my digital footprints on social media 2. Compare that to my desired level of public activity, e.g., do not share photos of me 3. Provide tools to delete, scrub, send takedowns, etc.
4. template an online persona, and cede it across the web, create footprints use SEO type methods to promote a desired public image.
Re: Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites
#88Just because you _can_ do something, doesn't mean you should.
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#89> This project is "currently used by some law enforcement agencies in countries where resources are limited". Pretty troubling statement. Does this tool help repressive governments track people across accounts? That’s sure what it looks like.
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.
You know what would be a great addition to this tool: A transparency panel/dashboard that shows any state organizations or LEO systems that are using it.
List out all the IPs and countries that are state IPs using it.
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