Re: [ST] Phone Book to Hell The power of the internet....

["Denis Liakos" <denoose@xxxxxxx>]

Basically, living in the modern magnetic ink world as we all do, your 
privacy evaporated a long time ago, and you're not getting it back, Google, 
phonebooks, or otherwise. The information age owns all our asses.....

Denis Liakos
- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "STeve Duncan" <xhippy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 4:28 PM
Subject: [ST] Phone Book to Hell The power of the internet....


>
> OK, all you "phone book" protagonists, that ain't the point.  Believe it 
> or not I have actually seen a phone book, even used one for something 
> besides toilet paper  :--)
>
> But a phone book ain't' a reverse look up tool.  You know someone's name, 
> you look up the phone number and address.  That's how they work.  What 
> concerns me is the fact that someone can get a anonymous phone number and 
> instantly find out who owns it and a freakin map to where they live.
>
> Sure, I know reverse look-ups have existed for years on the internet, use 
> them in my work sometimes.  But they ain't "Google".  Any stupid freakin 
> moron knows where google is and how to use it.
>
> A few scenarios that you might consider.
>
> 1)  You are up late some night, you go to call a friend, you misdial, it's 
> 2:30 am, you get some crack pot on the other end screaming how you just 
> ruined his whole nights sleep.  You hang up.  Before, that would be the 
> end of that.  But now this meathead, jumps up, keys your phone number into 
> google, and heads over to your house for a little front yard olympics. 
> Could happen easily.
>
> 2)  You put an add in the local paper to sell a sweet vintage bike, list 
> your phone number.  The local bike gang check your number out on google. 
> Too stupid to find your house by just an address, they print the map and 
> stake our your house.  Ahhhh, the plotting begins.
>
> 3)  You meet some sweet chick at the bar, you write down your number on a 
> napkin, slip it into her delicate hand, hoping she will call you in a day 
> or so.  You didn't know she was married to the most jealous ex-con on the 
> planet.  He finds the napkin while rummaging through her purse looking for 
> crack.  He goes ballistic.  Goes to the computer and you, my friend are 
> now on a mangle and destroy list and don't even know it.  He can even read 
> the map.
>
> I could go on, and I bet you guys can come up with some even more bizarre 
> scenarios.
>
> Sure, far fetched, but just one more possible way to be hassled, easily. 
> Too easily in my book.
>
> I'll tell ya one thing for sure, just hope no one plays the old joke on 
> you, you know the one where somebody scribbles your phone number on the 
> bathroom wall.......
>
> "For a good time call 972-555-1212".  You might become way more popular 
> that you want.
>
>
> And just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean the world is NOT out to get 
> me.
>
>     :--))))
>
>
>
> eL Donut
> jinete en la tormenta
>
> STeve Duncan
> '00-Sprint-ST
>
>
>
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