Thankfully, in terms of privacy – thats a question we don’t need to answer – but this new service that The Pirate Bay now offers at least gives us a glimpse into what countries do have a large group of pirates. Sure – the map only show some part of the truth, but still – it does give an idea on how the current situation is today. Due to the techincal fact that a client only connect to a tracker every 15-20...

The past few days I’ve written a few posts regarding advanced search engines that find information and combine it. If you thought that those search engines were scary, then welcome Maltego. The general concept of Maltego is datamining and with the various types of “transformers” you have – for instance a email transformer – you can quickly map up a lot of information connected to that email address. With that...

While researching a bit about Pipl.com I stumbled upon a service, not publically available – but available upon signup and payment. This service combines an even more in-depth search covering a lot of social networks. Not only does it then search for given people, but it also then build a personal profile of you, what you do, friends, photos and similar. Sure – it might be nice to have it all at one place, but I am starting to...

As a followup to yesterdays post regarding QuarkBase I give you Pipl.com. So what is Pipl? It’s a search engine devoted to finding information about a certain individual and displays it all organized. It’ll find personal profiles on social networks like Bebo, Facebook and similar (that is, if you haven’t made your profile unreachable for search engines). It’ll find publications you’ve written, webpages that...