Would love to have a tool that monitors hashtags over 300+ SM sites.
Any recommendation?
Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites
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#122I’m not a fan. Kinda creepy.
It can get much creepier. It's possible to reverse image search a person's profile picture from one site to find out where else they have profiles - given that they reuse their profile picture - which many do.
I’ve been wondering when we’ll see a service that lets you upload a headshot from the company directory or Facebook, and returns every nude of that person that ever found its way onto the internet.
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#123I'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.
How would it be any better if it was a paid product? A determined bully can still buy it.
To prevent non-determined ones.
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#124Ok, since we're on this topic.. why can't we delete our old submissions/comments or the account itself on HN?
HN probably is the only "social media" sites I use that you can't do that. This can't be good for users' privacy or "right to be forgotten".
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#125Earlier 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.
Would you also consider Google search a recipe for stalking? It provides a larger set of results, but you can easily narrow down your results to social media sites...
It’s a tool, much like a knife is a tool. They can be used for good or bad. The tool is indifferent.
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#126Ok, since we're on this topic.. why can't we delete our old submissions/comments or the account itself on HN? HN probably is the only "social media" sites I use that you can't do that. This can't be good for users' privacy or "right to be forgotten".
IIRC you can just email the admins (check the FAQ) and they’ll help you out.
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#127Re: Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites
#128Cycling usernames is one thing But remember to break your social graph on occasion with a new phone number and email address, and never sharing your number or stored contacts with the social media network. not that hard just something to be conscious of.
We help companies in areas like payments/account fraud where there are constant bots / rings / account takeover attacks, and this is both good advice... and _really_ hard.
To cycle against entity resolution tools for a regular company, that'd mean things like full simultaneous reset of:
* cookies
* browser user agent
* potentially sequence of sites/services you use
* IP address/location
* linked accounts
* contact info
Even one miss/overlap can void your efforts.
The big sites have much more to work with than that, making it especially hard. Likewise, if a team takes a specific interest, there are even more correlations that can be done, e.g., behavioral analytics.
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#129Cycling usernames is one thing But remember to break your social graph on occasion with a new phone number and email address, and never sharing your number or stored contacts with the social media network. not that hard just something to be conscious of.
We help companies in areas like payments/account fraud where there are constant bots / rings / account takeover attacks, and this is both good advice... and _really_ hard. To cycle against entity resolution tools for a regular company, that'd mean things like full simultaneous reset of: * cookies * browser user agent * potentially sequence of sites/services you use * IP address/location * linked accounts * contact in…
Yes absolutely, fingerprinting an individual is easy and avoiding that as a user is hard.
Social media sites (Facebook products) might drive ads based on fingerprinting but they aren't re-linking social graphs this way. Sticking with the reliability of shared phone numbers and emails (and people friending/inviting the same people and having the same name theyve seen before)
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#130For anyone curious, I found the Python (first) method to be the easiest way to get this up and running. Also it hit a few false positives for my (not the one you see me using now) username.
Edit: Also you can't Ctrl-C to kill it midway through running so don't fat-finger it if you don't want to waste 30 seconds waiting for it to finish.