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post pic on craiglist/similar in Austin area. Say you found wallet/purse/camera/etc with her picture. Anyone that knows her please call/email w/ Name/Address
by mmmooo 13y ago
post pic on craiglist/similar in Austin area. Say you found wallet/purse/camera/etc with her picture. Anyone that knows her please call/email w/ Name/Address for you to send back. Use highschool for validation when contacted. Might have some error.
- philfreo 13y agoThis is the closest I've heard to one of the ideas that we expected to work, so I'll share. - Create an ad on Facebook with her picture. - Target people that went to her high school within 4 years of the range of years we thought she graduated within. Was only a few hundred people so the cost of running the ad would likely only be a few bucks. - The ad copy / landing page just needed to be convincing that we weren't stalking her. We went with the "help us win a bet" approach but the "lost camera" approach would have been good also. Ultimately we got the answer sooner from another approach after we found out that we had another picture of the girl that Justin didn't know we had. So we canceled the ad, but I think this would have worked if given enough time.
- mmmooo 13y agoyah I was actually thinking of facebook ad just after I replied, with that criteria..only thing that turned me off from it what that you made it sound as highschool was a post-processor (validation) vs pre-processor (targeting)
- hkdobrev 13y agoSo you had two pictures? But what does this give you? Unless the second picture was available on the internet it is just the same as the first one.
- wahnfrieden 13y agoIt entirely depends on what was contained in the photo..... Photos can contain information.
- TrainedMonkey 13y agoDid that picture by include any kind of hint of a company she is working for?
- jbg331 13y agoNo, there was no hint about what company she worked for. And she didn't apply to work at Elastic / Close.io either
- rayiner 13y agoProof that your friends are your biggest privacy leak. People will tell just anything to anyone.
- namenotrequired 13y agoThey didn't actually try it, so there's no proof.
- 001sky 13y agoActually, they tried it... but stopped it before it ran its course.
- ArekDymalski 13y agoSo the actual method that worked was "another photo" mentioned by grecy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6369669 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6369669 an hour ago?
- philfreo 13y agoThis method likely would have worked by itself. The method that worked sooner wasn't just "another photo" found online of her friends as grecy mentioned. It was a photo we had taken ourselves, and it didn't have anyone else in it. But I'm not ready to tell Justin more details about it.
- olalonde 13y agoMaybe her phone's contact list, call history, Facebook, Instagram, etc. or her business/credit card were visible in that picture?
- dshanahan 13y agoThis strikes me as odd, albeit a clue. You had a photo of a girl you'd presumably never met. A photo you'd taken, that you didn't know was her at first.
- unreal37 13y agoThey went to the same event, took some photos. And in checking their photos, see that the same girl was in their photos too. Then they saw who she was with, and were able to locate a friend of hers. From locating a friend of hers from this second photo, they located her.
- rkulla 13y agoVeronica Mars style social engineering does tend to work.
- pothibo 13y agoYou had another picture that showed where she worked? Used LinkedIn and company's webpage (Some company list their employee) to narrow it down to a few people. Or send a message to a coworker on linkedin whatever looking for information about that girl and they gave it to you? I'm curious :P
- guessgame 13y agoshe applied for work with your company, and you had her photo and info from the cv?
- cincinnatus 13y agoIn the US CVs don't include a photo.
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- dsugarman 13y agoYou were stalking her. Amusing story though
- philfreo 13y ago"stalk [verb] to follow, watch, and bother (someone) constantly in a way that is frightening, dangerous, etc." No, we weren't. And she knew about it, was amused by it herself. No bad intentions.
- 001sky 13y agostalk. verb: to follow (an animal or person that you are hunting or trying to capture) by moving slowly and quietly stalk. slang defination: hound, spy, solicitation for a certain kind of information
- kjs3 13y agosophistry [ˈsɒfɪstrɪ] n pl -ries 1. (Philosophy) a. a method of argument that is seemingly plausible though actually invalid and misleading b. the art of using such arguments 2. subtle but unsound or fallacious reasoning 3. an instance of this; sophism
- roryokane 13y agoYour reply appears to accuse the parent of sophistry, but you provide an even worse argument for your claim than the parent does. It is not obvious to me how posting the definition of “stalk”, according to which the bet was not stalking, is an invalid or misleading argument.
- kjs3 13y agoI am directly accusing the parent of sophistry by selecting to post a definition of "stalking" that required malicious intent if not violence when that is not the totality of the definition, is not consistent with Merriam-Webster or Oxford dictionary and seeks to excuse their behavior by the omission. . But you knew that.