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Then I created another thread to try to warn them.
Oh crud! Dudes! Right now there are about 75 Guests here that are not robots such as Google. Havn't you thought that one of them might be a child molestor or a rapest? If you want, post a message here saying you'll give it out by PM, E-mail, or IM, if a registered user that you know very well askes you for it. Don't let total strangers get access to it.
Drop a URL for a local or national Reverse Lookup [mytelus.com] to let them know just how easy it is to find out where a person lives based on their phone #.
Just to prove a point to an online "friend" who had a habit of giving out her phone #, in IM, one day I walked her through, showing her how easy it was to work from phone #, to her address and name, then with a bit of googling figure out where she worked, what she did there, roughly how much money she made.
It took about 5 minutes to get all that info about her, all based on her phone #. She got the point, and stopped beingquite so free-wheeling about giving out her #.
Privacy is becoming a sadly limited commodity in the information age. Usually, it isn't a case of whether the treasure chest of info is available about someone, it's just a matter of how long it takes to find it.
"Your search - ***-***-**** - did not match any documents."
Nice.
My daughter (with a teen and a 7 year old) has so many safeties in place it's like a prison. Yet she too doesn't seem to realize that all the older girl (or even the younger one, though that's less likely for a lot of reasons) has to do is give ONE WRONG "FRIEND" the info to be in deep yogurt.
