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Re: Fake Name Generator

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Post by jtheory »

mbrameld wrote: post #107
possibilistic wrote: post #90

Why are social security numbers generated? That seems necessary for supporting only dubious kinds of behavior. Aren't SSNs only useful for banking/credit-type services? (Perhaps someone can enlighten me.)

My guess is because they are also geo-dependent. Your fake person gets a valid SSN for where they are from.

Eh, SSNs aren't linked to location in any usable way. Obviously your SSN will not change when you move cross-country (so they're not linked to current address), and I think they're only based on the mailing address entered when the card was applied for, which may not even be where you were born.

Re: Fake Name Generator

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Post by dubfan »

warbastard wrote: post #35
eterm wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The England/Wales names are weird too, lots of unusual first names. Also, Wales seems way over-represented. It has a population that's tiny compared to England, but half the names generated seem to be Welsh names such as Cerys.

Also, I don't know any English/Welsh people who drive a 1992 Pontiac Sunbird.

The car generation is really strange. I just generated an occupational therapist aide who drives a 2001 Ariel Atom.

Re: Fake Name Generator

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Post by bigiain »

emmelaich wrote: post #138
warbastard wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also, I don't know any English/Welsh people who drive a 1992 Pontiac Sunbird.

My Eritrean living in Sweden was 170cm / 5'6" weight 112kg 246lb. Bit unusual but possible I guess. Random name factoid: In England, J is a valid first name and A is a valid surname. So someone's full name could be J A. I wonder how many databases would accept that.

I've got a colleague who's legal first name is "G". He's listed as "Gee" in about 50% of the places he needs to register (including some important places where there might be future legal ramifications of not using his proper legal name - I'm looking at _you_ Crazy Domains web/database programmer!)

Re: Fake Name Generator

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Post by dubfan »

CWuestefeld wrote: post #82
warbastard wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also, I don't know any English/Welsh people who drive a 1992 Pontiac Sunbird.

The first thing I noticed was that the vehicle field doesn't seem to be sensitive to the products available domestically for the person's address. And for bonus points, it could even consider demographics of the address versus price of the car (I got a Bentley while living in the middle of nowhere in the rust belt, which seems a bit suspicious).

The addresses it generates are generally non-existent (if they do exist, it's a coincidence)

Re: Fake Name Generator

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Post by chx »

teddyh wrote: post #16

# aptitude install rig RIG (Random Identity Generator) is a free replacement for a shareware program out there called 'fake'. It generates random, yet real-looking, personal data. It is useful if you need to feed a name to a Web site, BBS, or real person, and are too lazy to think of one yourself. Also, if the Web site/BBS/person you are giving the information to tries to cross-check the city, state, zip, or area cod…

The wonderful thing about fakenamegenerator is the email coming with it. While mailinator is often blocked this one is less so.

Re: Fake Name Generator

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Post by pjl »

zbowling wrote: post #98
verandaguy wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I could be wrong, but I believe MacPorts has more ports in the default repository at the moment. Not sure about Fink. But yes, arguably, `brew` is moving forward very quickly.

MacPorts is full of useless junk. MacPorts will install a new sandboxed python, ruby, perl, etc when just want to get wget (the built in versions are fine!). The libraries are all broken out where brew keeps them simple and a lot of the packages are old silly packages that no one on the Mac really cares about (every single GNOME library for example). brew isn't just moving forward quickly, it has really just out righ…

MacPorts does not use system libraries for good reasons:

"There are several reasons why MacPorts uses its own libraries. It makes ports more consistent across different versions of Mac OS X. For example, if we can rely on openssl 1.0.0 from MacPorts, we don't have to test every port that needs ssl for every available openssl installation. Apple's software tends to break from time to time (e.g. openssl refuses to build with an old zlib, but for awhile Apple shipped the old headers of the vulnerable zlib version). Even if Apple's versions aren't broken, they're rarely up-to-date. Apple has a habit of not updating the libraries in Mac OS X until absolutely necessitated by a security vulnerability." [1]

[1] https://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#ownlibs

Re: Fake Name Generator

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Post by grannyg00se »

mahmoudhossam wrote: post #125
teddyh wrote: post #16

# aptitude install rig RIG (Random Identity Generator) is a free replacement for a shareware program out there called 'fake'. It generates random, yet real-looking, personal data. It is useful if you need to feed a name to a Web site, BBS, or real person, and are too lazy to think of one yourself. Also, if the Web site/BBS/person you are giving the information to tries to cross-check the city, state, zip, or area cod…

For those who use Arch Linux, It's already available in the AUR. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rig/

And if you're tired of manually dealing with AUR packages (or just lazy) you might want to look into yaourt [1]. It uses the same syntax as pacman but also searches and installs from AUR.

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/yaourt

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