Do you really feel safe after you post on the Internet?

[NL_engineer]

Something from the CF on this, shared in accordance with the "fair dealing" provisions, Section 29, of the Copyright Act.

Military warns soldiers not to post info on Facebook
CBC.ca, 25 Feb 08, 20:10 PM MT
Article link

The Defence Department is advising Canadian soldiers not to post personal photos and information on social networking websites like Facebook, citing security concerns

Seen this posted at work today, with a must read attached (the CANFORGEN anyway).  I am surprised this site was not mentioned, as it has been in the past.

 

[blacktriangle]

If you really want to find out how out to lunch he is, try this little exercise:

Go to Killing with Keyboards and follow the steps as laid out there and see how much you can find on yourself or someone else.  It may take some time and imagination, but you will be surprised at what you may find.  Of course you will find many people with the same name, but with a little patience, you will be able to sort them out by address, nationality, employment, contacts and friends on Facebook, phone numbers, blog sites, etc. 

Give it a try.

Well it really does work, but it kind of makes me feel like a spy 

If I find you George, I'll be sure to send some flowers!

 

[George Wallace]

Well it really does work, but it kind of makes me feel like a spy 

If I find you George, I'll be sure to send some flowers!

My pension as a former Foreign Minister has me living with a wonderful garden overlooking the ocean.  I don't really need the flowers.  A good bottle of Scotch may do though.    ;D



PS:  Thanks Shamrock!

 

[sober_ruski]

Wow, that Chris guy must also work for GM. Where else would he get a 2004 Camaro  ;D


as for finding out about myself. Turns out i have stocks in some company (weird), and where/when i graduated from high school. Nothing else.

 

[Michael OLeary]

as for finding out about myself. Turns out i have stocks in some company (weird), and where/when i graduated from high school. Nothing else.

Don't be too sure of that:

Rank - Private (from profile)
Trade - Signals Operator (SIG OP) 00329-01 (former MOC 215) (from profile plus Google search to confirm trade)
Signals unit (from avatar)
Current location identifiable from IP
Russian home town - "my 80K home town in middle of nowhere Russia" (your post)
Father's military service - "base where my dad used to work" "2Lt in radio/missile watching place" (your post)
Canadian home town Vancouver - "my old high school there was a coop term with either Vancouver police or local RCMP" (your post)
Vehicle - 1993 Honda Prelude (your post)

So, I'm looking for a 21 year old signaller driving a Prelude who knows Russian.

And that's from a quick scan of about half your posts here.  All someone needs to do to scan all of a member's posts is to stay under the DS radar and be a good little member, posting nothing controversial. We don't even notice the members with clean IPs, nicknames and email addresses that aren't stupid, or that make few or no posts.  Anyone who diligently wanted to mine the data here for the type of collection described above would get plenty to work with. We all forget the tidbits we post, and seldom imagine the picture we present of ourselves on line.

 

[sober_ruski]

where did you get the prelude part?

i was looking for one at some point, never found one i liked in good enough condition.

 

[Michael OLeary]

where did you get the prelude part?

i was looking for one at some point, never found one i liked in good enough condition.

http://forums.army.ca/forums/threads/51035/post-459875.html#msg459875
http://forums.army.ca/forums/threads/51035/post-459941.html#msg459941

Remember, first level information collecting can include inaccuracies.  These get refined in further investigation of high value targets.

 

[sober_ruski]

argh, i give up. i'm screwed if i do and if i don't.

There is a reason why I did not use my icq number here. Did a quick search and found things i did a while ago and completely forgot about them

Still, where do I find a 2004 Camaro?

 

[The_Falcon]

This is another reason to be very careful of what you post.  There are many "experts" out there who want nothing better than to gather their information from you.  This guy apparently knows nothing about Security Concerns and is posing as an expert to pick up tidbits so he can spew them to the media and look good.  He should in fact be expousing the same things as the CF and reinforcing their statement, but he is doing quite the opposite.  What agenda does he have to call this all folly on the part of the CF?

I believe we have discussed the "expert" status of Mr Ram before, and he even came on this site to defend himself to boot.

 

[The_Falcon]

If you really want to find out how out to lunch he is, try this little exercise:

Go to Killing with Keyboards and follow the steps as laid out there and see how much you can find on yourself or someone else.  It may take some time and imagination, but you will be surprised at what you may find.  Of course you will find many people with the same name, but with a little patience, you will be able to sort them out by address, nationality, employment, contacts and friends on Facebook, phone numbers, blog sites, etc. 

Give it a try.

I have googled myself on few occasions, anyone wanting to find info will have a fun time sorting through all the pages, cause my last name means something dirty in another language  >

 

[Thompson_JM]

One more reason to own high powered weapons.....

not that I own any of those......  :-\ 

 

[hauger]

Alright....so in the vein of on-line privacy....how's bout a tool for a person who wants to wipe clean all past posts....sort of a "click here and become anon again" button.  I'm guessing such a function might prove tricky to make a reality though...but if the database can search for past posts, it should be able to mass delete them too.  Granted...this would probably make a number of historic threads completely unreadable.

What about de-linking posts at a users request from the profile (after a certain time frame).  This preserves the thread integrity but lessens the ability to mine the forums for information.

Or....do us a favour and delete the "search for posts from this user" function.

 

[George Wallace]

Alright....so in the vein of on-line privacy....how's bout a tool for a person who wants to wipe clean all past posts....sort of a "click here and become anon again" button.  I'm guessing suck a function might prove tricky to make a reality though...but if the database can search for past posts, it should be able to mass delete them too.  Granted...this would probably make a number of historic threads completely unreadable.

What about de-linking posts at a users request from the profile (after a certain time frame).  This preserves the thread integrity but lessens the ability to mine the forums for information.

Or....do us a favour and delete the "search for posts from this user" function.

You obviously didn't understand what the term "Cached" meant, nor the fact that those posts are cached on the www in a variety of locations used by Google.

 

[hauger]

You obviously didn't understand what the term "Cached" meant, nor the fact that those posts are cached on the www in a variety of locations used by Google.

Very fair comment.  Damn Google & low, low price storage that allows near unlimited cashe.

T'was just thinking aloud about how to make things a bit more difficult is all.

 

[hauger]

Hey wait a minute, isn't google cashe an opt out system?


From Google's web site:The "Cached" link will be missing for sites that have not been indexed, as well as for sites whose owners have requested we not cache their content.

(source: http://www.google.com/help/features.html)


Ummm....just thinking out loud here....couldn't army.ca just, oh, I don't know, maybe ask google to cut out the caching?

 

[George Wallace]

Have you heard about the "Wayback Machine"?

 

[Haggis]

That's it!!

I'm not posting on the Internet any more.

.... oops! :-[

 

[George Wallace]

In 2003, Mike had six updates to his Army.ca homepage for this site.

This is his homepage on Dec 04, 2004.

 

[George Wallace]

The NDP webpage from 28 Jan 2004.  Not much on it.  A link will take you to a Jack Layton news article.

 

[midget-boyd91]

In 2003, Mike had six updates to his Army.ca homepage for this site.

This is his homepage on Dec 04, 2004.

Wow, June 2004 :

Total Members: 2795
Total Posts: 75194
Total Topics: 16856
Total Categories: 5
Total Boards: 26

Quite the boom, I'd say.

Midget