Comments on: The Amazing(ly Connected) Dave

The Amazing(ly Connected) Dave

oneswellfoop — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 17:27:39 -0800

It has never been easier to be an amazing mind-reader. (SLYT German PSA w/subtitles... any more would be telling)

By: HuronBob

HuronBob — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 17:40:29 -0800

I knew that.

By: Flashman

Flashman — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 17:41:30 -0800

Excellent - a very clever and effective PSA It's from Belgium though

By: facetious

facetious — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 17:45:23 -0800

great

By: DU

DU — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 18:02:46 -0800

Happy to see Facebook there. If banks don't like FB, maybe it'll finally die.

By: rebent

rebent — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 18:11:04 -0800

I take it with a heavy grain of salt. Sure people can be hard core doxxed, but the heavy typing and balaclavas make it look far more stuntish. I'd like to see a news report or journal article rather than the PSA.

By: etc.

etc. — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 18:11:40 -0800

Facebook is too big to fail.

By: gingerest

gingerest — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 18:11:55 -0800

I wonder how much faster Belgians can type when they're not wearing balaclavas?

By: DU

DU — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 18:17:00 -0800

If there's one thing the general public heeds, it's journal articles without a PSA to tell them the contents.

By: maxwelton

maxwelton — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 18:17:55 -0800

This is the worst TISM video ever.

By: Jakey

Jakey — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 18:18:28 -0800

rebent: "I take it with a heavy grain of salt. Sure people can be hard core doxxed, but the heavy typing and balaclavas make it look far more stuntish. I'd like to see a news report or journal article rather than the PSA" I take your point, but I would ask you how many times you have pointed out security risks to your less-internet-savvy friends and relations? How many times have you warned them to backup properly? One man's sledgehammer and nut is another man's "Really? I never knew."

By: ceribus peribus

ceribus peribus — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 18:18:37 -0800

That warning message on the screen at the end -- was it really fair to the participants to write that in English? They can't read the Youtube subtitles in person.

By: oneswellfoop

oneswellfoop — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 18:19:07 -0800

Do I EVER make a post without one stupid error? (For the record, I read the url at the end as .de instead of .be) EURO-MODS PLEASE HOPE ME!

By: Flashman

Flashman — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 18:31:57 -0800

I hated to be 'that guy' (and I also hate now to be that guy who writes things like "be 'that guy'") but dammit, Belgium gets no respect. And I wanted to put that 'no respect' in Flemish but Google apparently doesn't translate into Flemish, which kind of proves that point.

By: esc67

esc67 — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 18:57:05 -0800

That is not German they are speaking

By: benito.strauss

benito.strauss — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 19:13:17 -0800

I'm curious exactly how much information they used to start the search? Did the person choosing people get a victim's name, or did they just work off of their face? 'Cause I didn't know facial recognition had gotten that advanced.

By: clvrmnky

clvrmnky — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 19:15:38 -0800

@benito.strauss, they had to sign a release before they did the "show" they thought they were doing. Their names and basic info was known to the people doing the searches.

By: clvrmnky

clvrmnky — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 19:18:44 -0800

My main beef is, how are individuals supposed to "protect" themselves when the most damaging information is locked up by corporate interests with little or no oversight? We are living in a world were "sign up using ..." is the holy fucking grail for all the social media concerns, so you have to make your choice sometimes. Without major changes to the law, government oversight and entrenched corp data use and retention policies, there isn't a whole lot an individual can do while still participating in this grand experiment.

By: sammyo

sammyo — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 19:28:00 -0800

It not just fake psychics, wait, make that "not just PSA video psychics": Fortune Teller Used Google to Speak to the Dead

By: Yowser

Yowser — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 19:33:22 -0800

If it was Germany, it would be an ad about how much more secure StudiVZ is than Facebook, and would actually be an ad. Those Germans have some nutty ideas about Facebook, despite them slowly but surely migrating to it...

By: mazola

mazola — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 21:47:22 -0800

Isn't everyone wearing balaclavas right now? Just me? ?

By: cmoj

cmoj — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 22:02:07 -0800

Fuck a PSA, I wanna use this trick to cold read people.

By: taz

taz — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 22:23:36 -0800

That's fantastic; I'd love to know who came up with the concept... simple and perfect. Your euromod is here, but it's a little late to fix the booboo; I'd either need to delete a bunch of comments or leave them and everyone would be confused for 20 comments until reading a "fixed that" note. Your tears will not melt my cold, cold heart, onefellswoop.

By: oneswellfoop

oneswellfoop — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 23:59:16 -0800

I'm only crying because you got my MeFiName wrong, dazz.

By: obiwanwasabi

obiwanwasabi — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 03:02:04 -0800

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By: otherchaz

otherchaz — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 03:11:37 -0800

Lucky Metafilter replaces your PayPal password with asterisks to stop you posting it by mistake. I always wondered who did that. Thank you, Lucky Metafilter, you are now my favorite superhero.

By: Michael Roberts

Michael Roberts — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 04:32:59 -0800

This is not a PSA. It's an ad for an Internet banking service.

By: ersatz

ersatz — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 06:11:23 -0800

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By: nushustu

nushustu — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 07:58:18 -0800

I used to work for a consulting firm that had trial lawyers as clients. There was this one particular lawyer who was quite a showman. He'd go to law conferences with a couple of us researchers in tow, and give a talk about jury selection or some other job where you'd need to do research on a person. He'd have us on the stage with laptops and select two or three at random from the audience. He'd ask them to provide and spell their names, and where they were from. This wasn't weird as it was usually on the conference nametags anyway. Then he'd go on with his talk for 20 minutes. At the end of his talk about privacy, people research, etc., he'd get some information from us about the audience members he'd picked before. We could get damn near everything: houses, cars, bankruptcies, businesses they owned, prior jobs, marriages, divorces, social security numbers, phone numbers, bank loans. Sometimes bank account numbers. Occasionally we'd get things that could be truly embarrassing (affairs, inappropriate pics); he'd never say anything publicly about those types of things, but it made the point. There's all kinds of stuff out there. Even just the stuff thats publicly available is more than most people realize.

By: IAmBroom

IAmBroom — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 08:10:07 -0800

Michael Roberts: This is not a PSA. It's an ad for an Internet banking service.

Um, it's both. It's a PSA sponsored by a banking service, which is a "good-guy" ad for their service.