Can it REALLY be this easy?
Hal
Quote:
I can't see the
posts you're responding to (since I surf here through
Google Groups), but if some troll doesn't understand the need for
privacy, it's easy to convince them otherwise. Here's how to do it:
Google Groups), but if some troll doesn't understand the need for
privacy, it's easy to convince them otherwise. Here's how to do it:
1) Get the person's IP address from their post's headers, then trace
the IP addy to the Internet Service Provider.
2) Posing as an attorney or police detective, call the person's
Internet Service Provider and ask them who used that IP address.
3) At this point, the idiot employee of the ISP usually tells you
everything he knows.
- But if he doesn't
tell you, then all you have to
do is mail certified a fake subpoena to the ISP and then get the
records that way. (Almost nobody knows what a real subpoena looks
like, so it's easy to fake one.)-
do is mail certified a fake subpoena to the ISP and then get the
records that way. (Almost nobody knows what a real subpoena looks
like, so it's easy to fake one.)-
4) Once you have the person's name and address, you can do a public
records search for their Date of Birth. Also, the Social Security
Number usually appears in one record or another. (Depending on the
state they live in, their driver's registration records might reveal
it for example.)
5) Then post on Usenet the person's name, address, date of birth,
Social Security Number, and driver's license number.
6) The final result is that the person will then realize how important
privacy
is.
:)
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