• wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      OSINT is the term you’re looking for.

      Edit: and this particular person was apparently talking about buying the data off signalhire.

      OSINT usually consists of collecting all of the publicly available data on a “target” (person or company usually) and correlating it all together to reveal things not explicitly public (or at least not all in one spot). “Open source” intelligence. Term is used by military, intelligence agencies, and pen-testers.

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    I did something like this once.

    Predatory marketing company in the early 00’s sent my company a pretty wide spam.

    Hit about 2/3 of my staff, looked kind of official, like they we were asking them to buy their product.

    I said fuck that, I looked up their admin contact (back before domains by proxy) and demanded they remove us from the list.

    The admin reached back out and told me it was impossible.

    I poked around on their internet facing smtp server to figure out their naming convention, (those were the wild west days) sent a direct message to each of their c-staff, their HR department, and tossed in everyone@ (I hope that would have been blocked) and threatened to sign them up for every list I could get my hands on if I ever got a single report that they sent us another spam.

    The admin mailed me back 1 hour later asking me to please never send them mails again and that our domain was being removed from their list.

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    All you need to re read is the part where it says “it can backfire BADLY”

    Make of that what you will

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      If you’re blocked from getting service, torching your account is probably your own next step.

      If they send you a cease and desist, you just use it for toilet paper and don’t re-contact. Torch your own account.

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    I wonder how long it would take for federal privacy laws to change if CEOs could never get a moment of peace because they had suddenly become the de facto customer support call center.

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      New law: CEOs and their family are exempt from any and all forms of surveillance.
      Oh wait, it’s actually an old law.

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    I did this with Kaiser permanente and they were less than happy about it lmao sorry Jacob McCarty, you’re a piece of shit and deserve bad things.

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    Links to market places? Id love access to this info to help instill the same panic I have when my data is stolen to these fucks stealing and selling it

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    The bit with contacting exec actualy works. Example:

    • Our app dosn’t work for 100 of users? -> can sit there for a month before we get to it, because it’s statisticaly insignificant number of users
    • One lady wrote CEO on LinkedIN? -> critical, must be done yestarday
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      Extremely true. We are “customer obsessed” which is why thousands of users having an annoying screen popping up confusing them is prioritized below one lady who knows the CEO being unable to do an incredibly niche thing that we never said you could do on our platform.

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    Cashapp has terminated my account for less (honestly IDK why, can’t get a response and I’ve only had like 3 transactions on there from people in my contacts)

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      So, when this guy made his move, it was a rare case of American bipartisan agreement. Which makes me wonder: Could anyone get Trump to answer how he feels about Luigi?

      I get the sense any answer he gives would anger a lot of people that were formerly on his side.

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        I’d bet he’d say “why would I care, he should have had more protection”

        Not that I think he’s capable of reflections but likely:

        question -> reflects off ego and self experiences (he has a security team) -> filters through current status of how it’d affect him (it doesn’t).

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    Also what is that website? The design is so 2000s nostalgia when people where trying all sorts of UI stuff