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
#2Nice OSINT tool.
Re: Sherlock: Hunt down social media accounts by username across 400 social networks
#3So what's a non creepy use for this?
Re: Sherlock: Hunt down social media accounts by username across 400 social networks
#4So what's a non creepy use for this?
Cybercrime research; locate malicious actors across social web.
Re: Sherlock: Hunt down social media accounts by username across 400 social networks
#5So what's a non creepy use for this?
I think the "non creepy" use is really just making people aware how easy it is to correlate all your different traces online. It's like when someone released on HN a tool that would link various HN accounts (and maybe Reddit accounts too IIRC), but by looking at commenter word choice similarity.
It makes people realize that actual anonymity online is a smokescreen.
Re: Sherlock: Hunt down social media accounts by username across 400 social networks
#6So what's a non creepy use for this?
Finding usernames that you can register and own across all social networks.
Re: Sherlock: Hunt down social media accounts by username across 400 social networks
#7So what's a non creepy use for this?
That's the great part- there isn't. Following people you like on every platform I guess.
Re: Sherlock: Hunt down social media accounts by username across 400 social networks
#8So what's a non creepy use for this?
It’s also a great education tool to showcase the need to be careful about internet hygiene. The creeps have done this sort of things for decades
Re: Sherlock: Hunt down social media accounts by username across 400 social networks
#9Reminder that malicious impersonation is common and easily automated with LLMs.
Re: Sherlock: Hunt down social media accounts by username across 400 social networks
#10So what's a non creepy use for this?
Seeing what it finds about yourself?