Comments on: Deep Inspection of Online Personas http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/deep-inspection-of-online-personas/ Information Security Think Tank Sat, 02 Feb 2013 17:50:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: .mario http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/deep-inspection-of-online-personas/comment-page-1/#comment-125775 .mario Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:54:37 +0000 https://www.gnucitizen.org/?p=2375#comment-125775 The problem with all those scraping estates is the value of information vs. the lack of security. Pipl and most other people scraper are highly vulnerable against XSS, Markup Injections and the so called DOM Redressing issues... Same with trust-ability. Temporary manipulation is as well possible as manipulation of the persistent search results by creating accounts with names similar to the victim's name. Hopefully those issues get somehow patched to avoid having the web flooded with false information about oneself. If possible at all - how to fix things broken by design? The problem with all those scraping estates is the value of information vs. the lack of security. Pipl and most other people scraper are highly vulnerable against XSS, Markup Injections and the so called DOM Redressing issues…

Same with trust-ability. Temporary manipulation is as well possible as manipulation of the persistent search results by creating accounts with names similar to the victim’s name.

Hopefully those issues get somehow patched to avoid having the web flooded with false information about oneself. If possible at all – how to fix things broken by design?

]]> By: Morgan Storey http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/deep-inspection-of-online-personas/comment-page-1/#comment-125746 Morgan Storey Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:43:04 +0000 https://www.gnucitizen.org/?p=2375#comment-125746 Pretty good find, I seem to remember something about this from a while ago and recall trying it and it wasn't that good. But this is good for a pre-liminary information gathering, then you can learn nicknames etc and do some google fu. Pretty good find, I seem to remember something about this from a while ago and recall trying it and it wasn’t that good.
But this is good for a pre-liminary information gathering, then you can learn nicknames etc and do some google fu.

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