Well, you use Facebook, I'm 99.99% sure you use your real name there, probably with a profile pic with yourself in it and probably that pic is taken around the zone you live in (giving away hints on your general location). Learn from this mistake and start practicing better cybersecurity. You basically gave him everything he needed to puzzle your life out, and now, you might have a creepy stalker following you. "My first pet's name was Godzilla, and man, he was hell every time I brought him to Tokyo!" "My favourite colour is green with purple polkadots!" "My mother's maiden name is Death, as in Destroyer of Worlds." As an aside, seriously consider using a password locker and multi-factor authentication, with the 'security questions' (which are themselves Things you Know, aka Passwords) being strings of letters, numbers, and if possible, special characters also saved in your locker.Ī dedicated hacker can put together your personal life and details and not need things like your phone's GPS to locate you. If you must answer, have fun with it by supplying bogus information. ![]() Pro-tip: Those are put up by hackers who use your answers to try to compromise your accounts. For instance, the question "Do you own or rent" should be met with "not gonna tell you that, bub." Likewise for all the "What was the name of your first pet," "What is your favourite colour," "What street did you live on when you grew up," and other similar questions that pop up on social media from time to time. Your second step is NOT to give out personal information. She might make her name Tabby HJ on Facebook. ![]() Facebook is annoying about this, but they have allowed me to obfuscate my name by shortening it. If you do not want to be identified on the Internet, your first step is to obfuscate your name on social media. You have just gotten a valuable lesson on Social Engineering and Open Source Intelligence.
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