I wonder how many people realize how easy it is to find someone on the internet?

For $30 you can sign up for Intellius.

Visit switchboard.com and put in the name and city. From there you get a landline phone number.

Look for a LinkedIn account. There you see the professional resume and often an email address.

Then look at their Facebook account. People say WAY more there than they should. They post vacation pictures WHILE on vacation. With the other pieces of information, you know where they live and that they are many states away. Care to break into a house?

With some social engineering thrown in, you could park in front of their house and with some basic hacking skills you can get their router password and access their computers. (Remember, the average home computer user is oblivious to security and such. From there you can steal the password file from their browser and get into accounts IF they are unaware enough to have embedded passwords in their browser. (Yes, it is convenient to have your browser save your un/pw, but it is not safe.)

Now granted, someone has to have some skill and knowledge and a reason to think there is something to gain from parking in front of John and Mary's house, but the point is that it CAN be done. I could do it, but I also have morals and scruples and would not do it. I am in the minority though.

Buyer beware.