Look, I’ll be straight with you. Two years ago, I thought online privacy was something only paranoid tech people worried about. Then my neighbor got her identity stolen through information that was sitting in plain sight on people search websites […]
How to Identify Someone from a Photo or Username
So there I was, three in the morning, squinting at my laptop screen and wondering how the hell I’d gotten myself into this mess. My friend Lisa had called me earlier that day, practically crying because someone was using her […]
How I Use Boolean Search to Find Anyone Online (And You Can Too)
Look, I’ll be honest with you. Five years ago, I was that guy who thought Boolean search was some fancy computer science thing that only tech nerds needed to know. Then I got handed this impossible assignment – find a […]
How I Track What People Say About Me Online (Before It Ruins My Career)
Look, I used to think monitoring my online mentions was paranoid behavior. Like something celebrities and politicians did because they had too much time and money. Then, three years ago, I almost lost a $75,000 consulting contract because of a […]
How I Use Social Media to Find Anyone (And Why You Need to Know This Stuff)
Look, I’m going to be straight with you about something that makes most people uncomfortable. Last month, I found a missing teenager in four hours using nothing but Instagram and TikTok. The police had been searching for three days. Her […]