bigaudiofanatic?

ken brydson

Anybody have his contact info? Was once a regular poster but hasn't logged on in a couple years...Need to clear something up with him.

Jstas

I had contact info on him from a few years ago somewhere. He lives/lived in Bridgeton, NJ. I'll see if I can find it.

ken brydson

Appreciate it John..

Jstas

Found an email address: nightmarecivic@gmail.com

Dunno if it still works.

Don't care to contact him myself. He's not my biggest fan.

Also, I do know he lives on Chestnut Rd in Bridgeton, NJ, zipcode 08302 but I can't find his actual house address or phone number anymore. It's probably buried on a DVD in a stack of file system backups that I don't care to sift through.

Let me know if that email works.

But this is probably him: https://www.facebook.com/reimermatt?fref=ts

I remember his name being Matt. If it is him, he's in Delaware now it seems.

In fact, it probably is him because this is his business: https://www.facebook.com/bigaudiofanatics/

Yeah....I know.

Sometimes I creep myself out at how good I am at finding people.

ken brydson

Thanks for the legwork man. I tried to help him out with some "legs" for a Panny plasma stand. Turned out they didn't work for him and he was gonna return them. Now, I find myself needing them back.

http://forum.polkaudio.com/discussion/161223/panasonic-stand-necks#latest

pitdogg2

John remind me to never urinate in your wheaties.....just saying

Jstas

There's nothing "personal" there.

All of it is readily available online if you just know what town he lives/lived in and what his name is.

I can't help it if he called his business the same thing as his username on an audio forum.

Now if I posted tax records or credit card info or a social security number, that would be a bad idea. I would have sent a phone number if I still had it via PM but everything else I posted shows up in a simple google search.

My job in I.T. security is to protect sensitive data from being exposed. I know full well what personally identifying information is. While a name and a Facebook page are personal information in the respect that they relate to a single individual, they are not personally identifying without more bits included. In other words, he's not going to get robbed by someone taking his identity and bank accounts.

Those bits can be found at his Facebook pages and such but that's on him for making them so readily available. What can I do if he isn't protecting that stuff himself?

Even at that, though, there is far more info out there than you think. The Internet just makes it easier to access and what you think is "private information" isn't really private at all. Lots of people have the wrong idea or think they are entitled to more protections than they actually are in regards to people finding out about you. But if you own a house/mortgage, ever were late enough on a payment to incur collections efforts, paid property taxes, own a domain name for a website, own a business, have a police record not sealed by courts, received a public accommodation, volunteer at some civil service level (EMT, fireman, etc), ever went to court over something and so on, info that many people think is "private" is out there for public consumption. But your name and how to contact you (address, phone number, email, etc) is not private. Even if you don't have it listed somewhere for public use, it's still not considered private.

Besides that, even though "Dynamic Mobile Audio" doesn't really go anywhere, he registered the domain name plus he put his name, phone number and address all over the page. It's even cached by Google because the site doesn't load for some reason:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://dma.rupp.io/

Contact Us

Submit form below to schedule a free consultation.

Bridgeton, New Jersey, 08302
(609) 805-XXXX
dynamicmobileaudio@gmail.com
www.dynamicmobileaudio.com

Privacy and security are misnomers. There's no such thing. Privacy exists only through obscurity and your efforts to keep your personal info out of the public view. In other words, if you're a nobody like most of us are and you make efforts to not have your info listed in places, then you can expect a reasonable amount or privacy. I can still find you, it will just take more effort on my part. Nothing that you can get now on the Internet is any different than what you could get prior to the Internet. Even if you are "unlisted" you're still listed 'cause somebody somewhere is billing you for something. The difference is that prior to the Internet you had to get off your butt and go somewhere to get it, like a town hall or the post office or a phone book.

Security is merely the idea that you put enough traps, pitfalls and firewalls between the outside world and what you want to keep safe that the thing you want to keep safe is worth less than the time, effort and resources bad guys are going to expend getting to it. Get some idealist pissed off at you and they will spend every bit they can getting to it because it's the principle, not the goal that matters to them. That guy/girl? You are not going to stop them. Hopefully you'll be able to slow them down enough to move the safe keeping thing before they get it but they will get through your security.

So no, posting info in a public forum that he readily posted on public and searchable websites is not posting personal information. It's just sharing info that's out there with someone who asked for a hand in contacting him. I had this info before but, like I said, it's buried somewhere. All I had was stuff that was posted here by him back in 2008 that y'all can go find yourselves. Just search on Bridgeton. He actually posted the email address here at one point and I verified his Facebook page by searching on his email address in Facebook and it went right to the same page.

Honestly, he was easy to find. I didn't even have to do a search at pipl.com.

Jstas

Wanan know how easy it is to get this info?

We'll use bigaudiofanatic as an example.

Go to http://www.godaddy.com

Scroll all the way to the bottom of the page and look for the link that says "WHOis Search" under Resources and click it.

In the search box, paste his domain name: dynamicmobileaudio.com

Hit enter, follow the on-screen prompts.

Go ahead and look at those results and tell me what you think.

BTW, none of that info is considered private.

If there was an account number or some other way for someone to identify assets beyond a public domain name then it would all be private info so someone could use that to compromise that account and cause damage to bigaudiofanatic.

EndersShadow

@Jstas

God I hate sensitive personal information lol...

I work IT in the legal field and that topic becomes a minefield fast regarding how to best protect it.

Encryption, ridiculous passwords, etc.

I think you did a great job explaining the current state of things.

Jstas

Well, it's what I do for a living and it's only getting to be a bigger field. Experienced talent is hard to come by and pay is at the top of the I.T. heap because of it.

I work for a company that manages hospitals, rehab facilities, after care facilities and nursing homes as well as a nursing division that supports patients at home. We are nationwide and one of the larger companies that do this kind of medical work. My company is a one stop shop for personal info and the odds are good that more than one person here has been a patient and their personal information and medical records are stored in our systems somewhere. My job is to make sure my users don't unintentionally or intentionally expose or remove that information from the systems and that it's all protected even when it is on our systems.

I've been doing this work for about 8.5 years now and honestly fell into it because there was no such thing as "data loss prevention" 10 years ago. I got in on the ground floor and now I'm guiding policy in multi-billion dollar companies on how to manage loss and risk in regards to information. Me. Hard to believe.

EndersShadow

Trust me, I do basically close to the same thing with some other things thrown in...

My "office" is small as its only 50 people, but the department and the "company" are quite large lol...

And somehow I also am the go to guy for a lot of the stuff like this....

Anyways, back to the original goal of putting the OP in touch with the forum member lol....

ken brydson

No response to email. Sent a message via his FB business page...

bigaudiofanatic

Come now guys. I always try to leave my contact info out. As an IT guy myself I try and keep a good balance of public info and personal info. I'm surprised you didn't find my phone number as that's posted all over the place. Glad I do google searches of my name from time to time. Yes my info has changed because I'm now married and moved to DE. My wife isn't fond of having out info out there for public so I've changed a few things. Jstas why am I not one of your biggest fans? Ken, I replied to you on FB messenger, I am using the stand currently but if you really need it I can try and snatch up a wall mount and send you the legs.