The Secret Weapon Hackers Can Use to Dox Nearly Anyone in America for $15

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Most Americans have very little choice but to provide their personal information to credit bureaus. Hackers have found a way into that data supply chain, and are advertising access in group chats used by violent criminals who rob, assault, and shoot targets.

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Most Americans have very little choice but to provide their personal information to credit bureaus.

We don't even provide it, they just take it. You can't do anything to stop them. Getting inaccurate information removed is a full-time job.

This isn't a new thing, these services have been around for a long time. True people search blew it out of the water and it's free. I highly suggest submitting a data removal request to them if you live in the US.

Holy shit! That site has everything. I have only seen the scam white pages and people search sites before, where it pretends to be scanning everything and then asks for your email, and then refuses to give you the report unless you pay them, and spams the shit out of you from that point forward.

Wow well that fucked up. Yet our government isn't doing shit about it. And shouldn't Truth Social be raided and shut down?

If a person is pirating they shut them down but this gets to continue.

You are the property and they are the owners...

Once more people start understanding this basic concept we might have some results

Section 230. Not that I'm certain I want that law gone, but the host site isn't liable for this behavior.

government corruption is eating away at our ability to keep ourselves free.. it's all the way in the Supreme Court at ridiculously historic proportions..

Oh I know wondering when were going have enough of this and go French on their asses.

they're out there showing everyone how it's done, trying to wake us up from our cheeseburgers and nacho fries

I live in Sweden and you can find the adress of like 99% of the people living in Sweden by just doing a simple google search on their name. For example famous actor Stellan SkarsgÄrd. I found his home adress in about 5 seconds.

Back in the before before times we were all sent a giant book full of everyone's address and phone number. If you didn't want to be in it you had to contact the phone company.

But that's all you had to do. Try making yourself dark now. It's a constant battle.

I will put getting your name removed from the yellow pages circa 2005 right up there with cancelling a gym membership, returning a used car, and immaculate conception.

I think same thing applied also for Norway or Denmark. I remember discovering this one day and it seemed pretty wild.