How easy is it to find someone's email address with only a name? Also, how legal is it to do this and check a persons online activity without there knowlege?
With an email addy they can find postings that you may or may not want to share with just anyone.
just figure anything you post on the internet can be seen by somebody else. If you are working in somebody's system, that is not being on the internet even though you are connected via the internet.=boman47k;393689]If you have an alternate addy, can it be found through your rpimary addy? It just makes me uncomfortable to know this was done. I do nothing illegal or anything. It just feels strange. I'm sure this may be read also, Don't care at this point.
really.I have asked my provider about changing my primary email because my name is part of it. I was told they could not do that. Maybe they can't, but I can change providers if I need to.]
A few years ago, my brother was getting messages from people on his contacts list asking why he sent them such oddball emails. He didn't know what they were talking about.now, if you get a virus, all bets are off. If it transfers info somewhere else, it could send enough info so that any addy could be discoverable and since they all came from the same source, a bit of research and they are linked.
That's probably the best advice.Heheh, bottom line is always behave as if you are being watched, chances are you may be.
actually if you would check, you would find that many sites wink::wink have such a license agreement in their TOS.Did you know that when someone signs up for Facebook and agrees to their terms of use that they give FB the right to use any information and photographs they've posted there?
Silly kids! You teach them the alphabet and how to type and the next thing you know they have their own file with the FBI.Years ago, a my daughters's friend's little bro hacked my aol account and put some ..stuff in my profile. I really don't know how long it had been there as I didn't check it everyday. I got better at that! LOL! I had to laugh it off. This was a young kid.
About that time, he hacked a federal facility near here. I was told they mostly scared the hell out of him and spoke of a possible job in a few years. As far as I know nothing came of it.
between you and Dave, you guys seem to understand this nebulous entity we call the internet. Maybe you can answer a question I have and have seen many others ask.Obviously, you still need an internet connection from somebody.
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And academia, most likely the part of it doing research for the military. The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), in Champaign Urbana (HALs birthplace) is where the technology for any browser we still use was born---Mosaic was released instantly to the public domain with some researchers kicking and screaming they should have had royalties (many spun off and developed browsers based on the technology and became filthy rich anyhow). The argument is that it was developed with public funds so the public should own it. This is one of the trickiest intellectual property areas public institutions face by the way. Does the inventor of a new technology have any rights to it if employed in essence by the public?The origial backbone was created mainly by the military
There is (was ?) a new bigger backbone going in - unsure of status