I work at an ISP. People have tried stuff like this. We laugh. Perhaps most ISP employees are much more gullible than we are? We didn't even want to give this info to the Secret Service when they wanted it one time. We only did after we realized they wouldn't be able to do anything with it in that particular case.
TimH On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 11:27:15 -0800 Harald Sundt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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: > > 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.)- > > 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. > > :) > > :Unquote -- feelin' hella good, so let's just keep on hackin' _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
