Working on a Cyberstalking article

[Irongeek]

I plan to start work on a tongue-in-cheek article on how to Cyberstalk someone. Basically, it will cover how to expand your knowledge about someone based on little bits of info like user name/email address, IP, given name, school or place of work, etc. using tools like who is, Google, NetBIOS sniffers, etc. Anybody have any good ideas on things/techniques I should mention? I’ll be sure to give you credit in the article if I use your ideas.

[DjM]

I have found tools like Canada411 to be very useful sources of info on person's and businesses Iron.

Cheers:

[thehorse13]

Iron, be careful how you go about doing this. The law is fuzzy in this area. You don't want to be inplicated as aiding in a felony.

Just 2 cents worth pocketing.

[Deeboe]

I realize you put Google on the list already, but I think you might consider http://people.yahoo.com used to have some pretty interesting stuff.

-Deeboe

[Irongeek]

Originally posted here by thehorse13
Iron, be careful how you go about doing this. The law is fuzzy in this area. You don't want to be inplicated as aiding in a felony.

Just 2 cents worth pocketing.

Point well take Horse, I just figured the best way to figure out how to protect yourself is to see how information can be found. I'll try to CMA as much as I can from a legal stand pont.

[The Texan]

are you going to discuss anything about WHOIS? if your being cyber stalked you might want to know more about who is hosting them etc... http://www.arin.net/whois/

[Irongeek]

Yep, I plan to use Whois to find info, especially for folks you have their own domain name. (I'm Kind of vulnerable to this, but I don't want to pay for the extra service of hiding my info.)

[hesperus]

There are thousands of skiptrace resources out there, especially in the US.

For instance,

Articles : http://www.pimall.com/nais/missingm.html

Links : http://www.pimall.com/nais/SKIPTRACE.HTM

[i2c]

1/
SQL injection into databases that dont provide some data, for instance telephone directories allow for forward lookup ie - number from name, but creative thinking can allow for looking up a name from a number. Theres plenty more uses of this idea....

2/
Whois is kinda dull, any idiot can run whois and figure out what it means, hope you dont focus to much on this.

3/
Its not so much about getting the information, but knowing what to do with it.

4/
Deep Web Resources!!!

5/
Phishing style info gathering - you might be able to email and get some information.

6/
Friendsreunited and other reunited sites, they might of been i the forces, been at school some place, what about online people finders? there all over the place, theres a few free ones that give a little info. if there not on a site then prehaps they have a friend or a neighbour you can ring and get info from by being clever...

i2c

[Relyt]

Well your signature should be included as well. Already you have much of my system info:

Your IP: XX.XX.XX.XX
Host Name: My ISP (which most anyone can tell it is ADSL)
Platform: Linux i686
Browser: enUSrv: 1.7.10 Gecho/20050715 Firefox/1.0.6 SUSE.
ISP City: Winter Park


Just $.02 worth.

cheers