Automatic Doxing

[MilesAway]

I was on my way to work the other day, when an ad for a security firm got me thinking: is it possible to use keywords for automatic doxing? Let's say we have a program looking of a phrase such as "My number is", and when it detects it, it automatically remembers the number. Could that work, and if not, what would be the closest thing to it?

[TheWormKill]

Well, you'd need to implement some kind of webcrawler, which is parsing websites, since this is probably your target. Then you'd need to analyze their content, while it may be tricky to extract it from menus etc. Afterwards you'd need a way to store the data and somehow create connections to real people. All in all an interesting project, but very complex and probably hard to realize, since the results will be quite shitty.

[MilesAway]

Well, you'd need to implement some kind of webcrawler, which is parsing websites, since this is probably your target. Then you'd need to analyze their content, while it may be tricky to extract it from menus etc. Afterwards you'd need a way to store the data and somehow create connections to real people. All in all an interesting project, but very complex and probably hard to realize, since the results will be quite shitty.

Well, I guess that on computers it would be difficult to execute, but how about on phones? It's possible to create an app that monitors text messages and sends them to me, but could you use a keyword system to avoid tons of useless conversations? Could the system also monitor internet searches?

[Kulverstukas]

This is somewhat how fedbots work. Connection on IRC has more experience with those...

[zenith]

As has been said already, it can definitely be done, but it's a fairly complicated project.

This guy developed an app to take someone's photo and auto-dox them to return their birth date and SSN number. I imagine it's not a far leap from there to return pretty much any freely available information on a person. Here's the video, it's a good watch:

http://www.ted.com/talks/alessandro_acquisti_why_privacy_matters?language=en

I love TED talks.

Edit: It's SSN, not SIN (Our Canadian equivalent)