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NeuroBeaker · Mar 26th, 2008, 04:40 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Ant FR (original)

put it like this Bill, Here it goes

You post a pic of your car, and on the same site you post some more details up like, you own a rare tortoise that you leave in your garden.

I do a search on your number plate on google, it brings up an ad you used to sell your car a few months back on ebay / pistonheads, that may then give me your home phone number. I then search again using the details i have picked up, on your address from the sale ads, i then do a polite call to your number, and ascertain your full name by a forgettable wrong number mistake. i then search for further info on facebook, myspace etc etc.Then i find your address by using 192 or bt against your number and area search with surname . then i know where there is a tortoise left unprotected in the garden and if stealing to order i can make some relatively easy cash.

yes the above is a long drawn out example. But you have to remeber how easy it is to link people via the internet. some information is of no use. but the more you put on the net the more there is to link you to other info which could be used. Not only that but if you take a picture of someone with number plates you could be incriminating somebody as the pic with number plate makes them identifiable. IE the recent example of jezza clarkson being spotted on the phone.

Excuse me... I need to go and arrange a protection detail for my Big-Brained African Spiny Pole-vaulting Tortoise named Igor who walks with an artificial limp in order to lure cabbages into a false sense of security before vaulting over garden fences to devour them.

Also... I must eliminate any online information that would lead Old Mrs. Muggins to the true culprit behind the disappearance of her vegetable patches...

I'll try to be back soon.

All the best,
Andrew.

PS
Actually, that is a really good point. It makes me wonder what the heck I have posted online - I can't remember anymore!

Mar 26th, 2008, 04:40 PM	#11
NeuroBeaker Where's my navigator?! Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Behind the wheel Local Time: 10:24 AM Posts: 5,827 Offline	Quote: Originally Posted by Ant FR (original) put it like this Bill, Here it goes You post a pic of your car, and on the same site you post some more details up like, you own a rare tortoise that you leave in your garden. I do a search on your number plate on google, it brings up an ad you used to sell your car a few months back on ebay / pistonheads, that may then give me your home phone number. I then search again using the details i have picked up, on your address from the sale ads, i then do a polite call to your number, and ascertain your full name by a forgettable wrong number mistake. i then search for further info on facebook, myspace etc etc.Then i find your address by using 192 or bt against your number and area search with surname . then i know where there is a tortoise left unprotected in the garden and if stealing to order i can make some relatively easy cash. yes the above is a long drawn out example. But you have to remeber how easy it is to link people via the internet. some information is of no use. but the more you put on the net the more there is to link you to other info which could be used. Not only that but if you take a picture of someone with number plates you could be incriminating somebody as the pic with number plate makes them identifiable. IE the recent example of jezza clarkson being spotted on the phone. Excuse me... I need to go and arrange a protection detail for my Big-Brained African Spiny Pole-vaulting Tortoise named Igor who walks with an artificial limp in order to lure cabbages into a false sense of security before vaulting over garden fences to devour them. Also... I must eliminate any online information that would lead Old Mrs. Muggins to the true culprit behind the disappearance of her vegetable patches... I'll try to be back soon. All the best, Andrew. PS Actually, that is a really good point. It makes me wonder what the heck I have posted online - I can't remember anymore! NeuroBeaker - Proud owner of "Zeus" (a 'slightly modified' 2004 MINI ONE). *WARNING!* Thesis writing in progress. Experiments continue. Multi-tasking? Explosion imminent!