Privacy is dead
Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 2:05 pm
this is very long, over 3 hours, but very, very interesting viewing.
It's a speech by a private investigator in 2008, to a room full of nerds, about how easy it is to find out everything about you with minimal effort. It's us-centric, but applies to all really. It was originally scheduled to be given in 2006 but the feds picked him up on the day of the speech(an interesting story in itself, covered within)
lots of interesting things, how the investigators job is comparatively piss-easy these days, how with social networking you are voluntarily handing out what used to be difficult information to obtain. How mobile phones give information directly and indirectly about your location, job, friends, activities etc without even looking at call contents. The pervasiveness of cctv and what those cameras are actually capable of doing. Directed advertising and how they know what you like so what to try to sell you...just what google knows about you...it goes on
Part 1 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 8023143842" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Part 2 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 9400519690" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
It's also available in 5 minute chunks on youtube for those with limited attention span
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vsxxsrn2Tfs" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
To lure you in, watch this snippet...In 4.5 hours, from sitting at his desk, using only publicly available tools and info and starting w/ only a phone number was able to discover this much...
well worth the watch. I'm upgrading my tinfoil hat to industrial grade.
It's a speech by a private investigator in 2008, to a room full of nerds, about how easy it is to find out everything about you with minimal effort. It's us-centric, but applies to all really. It was originally scheduled to be given in 2006 but the feds picked him up on the day of the speech(an interesting story in itself, covered within)
lots of interesting things, how the investigators job is comparatively piss-easy these days, how with social networking you are voluntarily handing out what used to be difficult information to obtain. How mobile phones give information directly and indirectly about your location, job, friends, activities etc without even looking at call contents. The pervasiveness of cctv and what those cameras are actually capable of doing. Directed advertising and how they know what you like so what to try to sell you...just what google knows about you...it goes on
Part 1 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 8023143842" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Part 2 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 9400519690" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
It's also available in 5 minute chunks on youtube for those with limited attention span
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vsxxsrn2Tfs" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
To lure you in, watch this snippet...In 4.5 hours, from sitting at his desk, using only publicly available tools and info and starting w/ only a phone number was able to discover this much...
well worth the watch. I'm upgrading my tinfoil hat to industrial grade.
