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AOL search data identified individuals
Kelly Martin, 2006-08-09
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Just use a search proxy its easy and free 2006-08-10
Anonymous (1 replies)
I dont know why more people dont know about them.

This way your search terms dont get associated to you personally and you dont get tracked.

try http://www.blackboxsearch.com

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Re: Just use a search proxy its easy and free 2006-08-10
Anonymous (1 replies)
doesn't really help much when it's what you search for that id you...does it????

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Re: Re: Just use a search proxy its easy and free 2007-04-07
Anonymous
it is funny.

"I go to a detective, I say I am John looking for Judy, and I expect nobody to know that John is looking for Judy. I forget that the detective will have to ask many people, maybe including gangsters, and even at some time he will have to talk to Judy's relatives. Someone might talk to ...

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AOL search data identified individuals 2006-08-10
Anonymous
I managed to get my hand on the data in question and there is a TON of incriminating information. It's bad enough that personal info is in there, but I got well over 300 unique (user) hits in reference to child pornography.

According to AOL, the unique id given to each user relates directly to a...

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AOL search data identified individuals 2006-08-14
Anonymous
One thing you can find that I have not seen mentioned is the identities of people one of these users themselves was searching for.

For example one user typed in a phone number, another typed in a name. When I copied this info into Google, it returned the full address and name and a map based on the...

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AOL search data identified individuals 2006-08-15
Anonymous
Some search strings point to people outside the body of users in the data. Phone numbers and names and ssn's are in there, and some of them it when searched for is tied to others' identities, if say the phone number that was searched for is publicly listed. ...

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AOL search data identified individuals 2006-08-15
Anonymous
Here is one of the fastest tools I have found for searching the database of http://www.simplifiedsec.com/KeywordDigger.html...

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