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Re: Fake Name Generator

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Post by damncabbage »

carlob wrote: post #29
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…

Someone please make a homebrew keg with this!

There's a pull request open here: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/pull/26075

If you absolutely can't wait, you can run this to install it:

  $ brew install https://github.com/adnissen/homebrew/raw/110c278d3a6ce6edae6208f4033bd3508530f29d/Library/Formula/rig.rb
Voilà.

  ############################################## 100.0%
  ==> Downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/rig/rig/1.11/rig-1.11.tar.gz
  ############################################## 100.0%
  ==> make
  🍺  /usr/local/Cellar/rig/1.11: 10 files, 96K, built in 5 seconds
  $ rig
  Jewell Harrison
  984 Lowel Rd
  Galveston, TX  77553
  (409) xxx-xxxx

Re: Fake Name Generator

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Post by kamjam »

jtheory wrote: post #141
mbrameld wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Geo-dependent, as in across the otherside of the globe maybe...

Re: Fake Name Generator

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Post by seszett »

kapkapkap wrote: post #66
antirez wrote: post #23

Italian names are not realistic. Try #1: "Dante Marcelo". Dante is a very strange name for an italian, I guess it is used in the US. Marcelo lacks an "l" (it is Marcello) so it sounds Spanish instead. Try #2: "Berto Trentino". Trentino is realistic but Berto sounds a lot like an abbreviation of "Alberto", so not a real name even if I guess there are people actually named "Berto". Try #3: "Pupetta Rizzo". Can't imagin…

I think its fair to say that scenarios where a service cancels a user account because his/her name was not "realistic sounding" are few and far between. (Assuming you're not entering names like "Doorknob Toothbrush")

Well, the site did generate Iva Lavallée as a French female name for me. I had never heard of someone called Iva, but it seems it's been given to exactly 100 persons in France since 1900.

Iva Lavallée sounds like He's gonna swallow it, really.

Re: Fake Name Generator

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Post by 72deluxe »

zman0225 wrote: post #41

Pretty awesome - although I keep on getting Ferraris and type two Diabetes. I guess it goes to show that you really can't have everything.

Surely it shows precisely the opposite! You have a Ferrari AND diabetes! Very lucky indeed!

Re: Fake Name Generator

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Post by milkers »

I have used a similar service while preparing a lab assignment for a CS course this semester in my uni. But this one, whooa, just generate random users for your newest service and maybe with a little AI you can overcome the famous coldstart problem.

Re: Fake Name Generator

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Post by christiangenco »

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…

Also, for ruby: `gem install faker` [1]

1. https://github.com/stympy/faker

Re: Fake Name Generator

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Post by Sami_Lehtinen »

After quick look it seems that this is only poor randomizer. Good generator generates data which isn't too random and internal correlations and ranges are right.

I used to maintain one over 15 years ago.

At least City Street address post number and telephone had to be internally linked. Those are things that can be easily and automatically checked. So those constraints need to be checked also when generating data. It's also silly to give flat address on area where there aren't any flats etc. 30th floor on country side? Oh yeah. Distance based address downtown. As silly.

Re: Fake Name Generator

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Post by qbrass »

peterwwillis wrote: post #51
Tarential wrote: post #40

While this is very interesting, the profiles may need to be "tweaked" a bit to be realistic. For example, the first profile it generate for me was a: -Female -Fitness instructor -Weighing 205.9 lbs -Standing 5 feet 1 inch Individually, any of these things might be ok. Any three could even be possible. All four, however, just doesn't seem to work.

The occupations do seem the most likely to cause suspicion. Some of them are trades where you have to be licensed or registered to have that occupation, so a quick search would prove the person does not exist, or at least is lying about their job. Then there's the automobile, which could also raise red flags. A Fiat Tempra driven in the USA would probably be suspicious to anyone who knows that Fiats probably weren't…

I'm not sure why National Auto Parts would needs a Perianesthesia nurse who runs a website called SuicideLaws.com, but they seem to be paying him well enough to drive 1992 Ferrari 512 TR.
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