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Which is a bad idea also. We should have some domain name space which we let people register forever.
That results in the clownpenis.fart problem.
What problem is that?
Show HN: I built an app that scans every social media network for your username
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#72Lot of results! Thanks
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#73I found myself scrolling through Github’s “trending” repos, looking for some coding inspiration. Within the next hour, I stumbled across something called The Sherlock Project. Interesting, It had over 35k stars, must be pretty popular. I quickly cloned the repo and started toying around with it. It didn’t take me long to realize the power of this tool. All I had to do was insert a username, and voila! I was looking a…
You need a privacy policy (or at least a one-liner statement) that gives potential users some assurance you aren't harvesting their username / IP / etc or the results for some other purpose or piping it to advertisers.
If they were going to harvest those usernames by posting it on hackernews, wouldn't it be easier to just scrape hackernews for usernames in the first place?
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#76A bunch of the occurrences it "finds" appear to be false positives, as far as I can tell.
Wonder if some sites are seeding false positives to get your visit. Like ads saying "buy sarin gas attack in japan at the lowest price!".
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#77Shows me on something called smule which I don't have an account on.
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#78I don't want to rain on anyone's parade, but I'll just add my unsolicited opinion...
Functionality like this, and more acutely, any kind of cross-service, cross-account stylometrics correlation or de-anonymizing service gives me great concerns for its abuse and the groups that it likely endangers (and the groups it likely empowers).
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#80Hmmm... I searched a name and it found 9 results. But none of the profiles actually existed when I followed the links.
Mind you, I've never fond these kind of things to be very effective. Bellingcat has a selection of similar tools and the results are always pretty unreliable:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18rtqh8EG2q1xBo2cLNyh...