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Sherlock: Hunt down social media accounts by username across 400 social networks

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Re: Sherlock: Hunt down social media accounts by username across 400 social networks

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Post by exe34 »

yieldcrv wrote: post #25
s1artibartfast wrote: post #20

I dont plan to run for president or anything, but find myself increasingly censoring my online speech. I think the biggest risk is some out of context post being pulled into a civil suit, or professional cancellation following that. Things like advice in an alcohol recovery forum would be prime evidence for a liability suit. There are also groups that vacuum the internet for offensive posts, and use them to try to ge…

Being authentic is the ticket to public office now I’m kind of glad that the value of blackmail futures has plummeted to zero I always thought millenials would be the culprit because millennials have so much online, but nope, it was just old fashioned baby boomers that have spearheaded it and double down on their indiscretions to be the role models for the country’s top offices

"criminal activity?"

"no sir."

"for god's sake Baldrick, you're running for parliament. I'll put fraud and sexual deviancy."

Re: Sherlock: Hunt down social media accounts by username across 400 social networks

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Post by echelon »

yieldcrv wrote: post #25
s1artibartfast wrote: post #20

I dont plan to run for president or anything, but find myself increasingly censoring my online speech. I think the biggest risk is some out of context post being pulled into a civil suit, or professional cancellation following that. Things like advice in an alcohol recovery forum would be prime evidence for a liability suit. There are also groups that vacuum the internet for offensive posts, and use them to try to ge…

Being authentic is the ticket to public office now I’m kind of glad that the value of blackmail futures has plummeted to zero I always thought millenials would be the culprit because millennials have so much online, but nope, it was just old fashioned baby boomers that have spearheaded it and double down on their indiscretions to be the role models for the country’s top offices

Only for this cycle. The pendulum will swing back to cancelling and pitchforks after this era of cult of personality.

Re: Sherlock: Hunt down social media accounts by username across 400 social networks

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Post by gonzo »

jmyeet wrote: post #18

Remember when IPv6 decided on 128 bit addreses and defaulting to /64 blocks because someone thought using a 48-bit MAC address as the IPv6 equivalent of a port was a good idea? Fast forward a decade or two and we realize how this is a PII leak issue so nobody does it but we're still stuck with 128-bit addresses (for those who use IPv6). There are several things that are a security issue or simply a privacy issue. The…

> Remember when IPv6 decided on 128 bit addreses and defaulting to /64 blocks because someone thought using a 48-bit MAC address as the IPv6 equivalent of a port was a good idea?

No, I don’t, and I’m well-aware of EUI-64.

IPv6 uses 128-bit addressing because some on the design committee or making comments on the drafts thought that 64 bits might not be enough.

Re: Sherlock: Hunt down social media accounts by username across 400 social networks

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Post by jdiff »

ksynwa wrote: post #29

Is it querying an offline or an online database? Because if it's the latter I hope people don't give it their various disparate usernames allowing them to link them together.

It doesn't query a database, it queries the individual sites.

https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock/blob/master/she...

Re: Sherlock: Hunt down social media accounts by username across 400 social networks

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Post by dylan604 »

s1artibartfast wrote: post #20

I dont plan to run for president or anything, but find myself increasingly censoring my online speech. I think the biggest risk is some out of context post being pulled into a civil suit, or professional cancellation following that. Things like advice in an alcohol recovery forum would be prime evidence for a liability suit. There are also groups that vacuum the internet for offensive posts, and use them to try to ge…

> for things they said 10 years ago.

I don't think this is an automatic negative as you are implying. There's definitely lots of qualifiers involved though. There would have to be significant evidence to show that the sentiment expressed is still no longer held which could be more than problematic to prove. If it was someone up for supreme court justice that posted pics showing how much they liked beer and their antics as a party person could be shown as lack of maturity by comparing that they no longer drink now. Someone posting racist comments would be much harder as you don't really know if they've changed their view or just learned not to post publicly their views.

Edit: automatic negative should really read automatic disqualifier

Re: Sherlock: Hunt down social media accounts by username across 400 social networks

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Post by EGreg »

echelon wrote: post #32
yieldcrv wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Being authentic is the ticket to public office now I’m kind of glad that the value of blackmail futures has plummeted to zero I always thought millenials would be the culprit because millennials have so much online, but nope, it was just old fashioned baby boomers that have spearheaded it and double down on their indiscretions to be the role models for the country’s top offices

Only for this cycle. The pendulum will swing back to cancelling and pitchforks after this era of cult of personality.

I thought canceling never stopped. It was just politically motivated.

(Ironically, Dems eat their own for that stuff, so maybe "politically motivated" doesn't quite capture it... compare e.g. Al Franken and Katie Hill vs Roy Moore or Matt Gaetz)

Re: Sherlock: Hunt down social media accounts by username across 400 social networks

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Post by dylan604 »

echelon wrote: post #32
yieldcrv wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Being authentic is the ticket to public office now I’m kind of glad that the value of blackmail futures has plummeted to zero I always thought millenials would be the culprit because millennials have so much online, but nope, it was just old fashioned baby boomers that have spearheaded it and double down on their indiscretions to be the role models for the country’s top offices

Only for this cycle. The pendulum will swing back to cancelling and pitchforks after this era of cult of personality.

what evidence do you have that this is true. at this point, a new theory of physics will be trotted out that shows a pendulum does not have to swing back. it will become trending on all the socials so that people believe. it therefore becomes the de facto truth, and the cult remains

Re: Sherlock: Hunt down social media accounts by username across 400 social networks

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Post by geor9e »

ksynwa wrote: post #29

Is it querying an offline or an online database? Because if it's the latter I hope people don't give it their various disparate usernames allowing them to link them together.

It's essentially a loop that fetches www.whatever.com/username and does a regex for "user not found". It then outputs a list of links, to possible profile pages. Pretty simple tool, but speeds up a standard investigation technique.

Re: Sherlock: Hunt down social media accounts by username across 400 social networks

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Post by exabrial »

s1artibartfast wrote: post #20

I dont plan to run for president or anything, but find myself increasingly censoring my online speech. I think the biggest risk is some out of context post being pulled into a civil suit, or professional cancellation following that. Things like advice in an alcohol recovery forum would be prime evidence for a liability suit. There are also groups that vacuum the internet for offensive posts, and use them to try to ge…

It's a relatively new and novel thing for people your age to be able to look up anything online, to the point where it's scandalous.

This card will be played over and over again by politicians, influencers, prosecutors, police, etc, until the smartphone-from-birth generation reaches office. At that point, it'll be so easy to dig up dirt on anyone, people will just stop caring (as they should anyway).

We're just in a weird transition period right now.

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