This is amazing! My only fear is that it will benefit more stalkers than genuine users.
Show HN: I built an app that scans every social media network for your username
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#82I 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…
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#83I 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).
Bad actors have had the ability to do this for a long time. If anything, this raises awareness among normal people.
Re: Show HN: I built an app that scans every social media network for your username
#84I 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…
this reply is really only quasi-related to your first sentence.
since you mentioned the "trending" repositories on github, i wanted to give the https://github.com/nschloe/github-trends project a shout out.
it's not the same thing at all but also kind of the same thing, although it's actually, at the same time, kinda also not. alright, i'll get real. the most important thing regarding the linked project is the fact that it's got graphs. with lines. in various colors. lines that generally rise upwards, towards the right-hand side of your screen(s). lines that, more often than not, have slopes which vary in intensity and length. lines that are part of, if i may take this chance to kindly reiterate, graphs.
everybody loves graphs, right? i know i do. almost as much as i love search results linking to 37 minute youtube how-to videos for reminders/instructions on how to fix a 37 second problem with absolutely zero transcript in the video description's text area.
anyways. here's a great example of a proper how-to video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py3QKC_OTvI
if you're having a bad day, ignore everything i've said, and just watch the 1st 6 seconds of the above how-to video. :)
Re: Show HN: I built an app that scans every social media network for your username
#85.. excellent tool .. TWO coffee's for you!
Re: Show HN: I built an app that scans every social media network for your username
#86Re: Show HN: I built an app that scans every social media network for your username
#87There is a similar iOS app implement in pure swift, run directly on your iPhone, open App Store and Search: Maigret to download this app.
.. which I am pleased to say also works in MacOS.
Re: Show HN: I built an app that scans every social media network for your username
#88.. added to my OSINT tools.
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#89.. just ran the iOS MAIGRET tool report [massively granular-thus more false positives + a shit tonne of server errors] against your tool. Enlightening.
Re: Show HN: I built an app that scans every social media network for your username
#90Some people are liking the UI here, but it wasn't clear to me at first that a [+] meant the username was used on that site. In my mind, it could just as easily mean that it's available on that site (that could be a positive result if you're looking for places to sign up with a name). This should be made more clear. It would be interesting if you could toggle on the not-found list as part of the results. If you get a…
I read the "[ + ]" bullet symbols as indicating a topic that could be expanded.