When you set out to research a person’s life and affairs you are faced with some formidable obstacles. The real work begins with identifying the subject of your research.
You will encounter problems with aliases, middle names, nick names, and generational designators. You will have to deal with maiden names, and name changes, legal or otherwise. You must also actively look for alternate names while conducting your research.
Does ID theft really cost $48 billion a year?
This article reminds us that we should view all statistics with skepticism until we know who produced them and understand how they were derived.
The Saskatchewan Rules of Court S.587 prohibits the court from allowing anybody who is not a party to a divorce action or a lawyer acting for one of the parties to view a divorce action file.
This is a slippery slope when we allow our courts to mindlessly prohibit the public from seeing what it is doing. It is one thing when a judge makes a considered decision to seal an action file; however, it is risky to conceal an entire class of actions from public scrutiny.
The tired old song of personal privacy must not prevent us from seeing what our courts are doing, regardless of the type of action. An open court system is one of the hallmarks of a free and democratic society.
1. You’re looking in the wrong place.
You might be looking in the wrong province, state or country. Check for spelling variations such as the English as opposed to US spellings of words like centre and colour.
Check the suffix. Is it Ltd., PLC, GmbH, AG, Spa, Nv or something else. This may tell you the country in which it was incorporated.
2. You have the wrong name.
Companies often do business under assumed names. This can be the initials or an entirely different name. Look for the company by first looking for the assumed business name.
3. You have the brand name not the company name.
Check the trademark databases, Thomas Register, Gale’s Brands and Their Companies and International Brands and Their Companies.
4. You have the wrong spelling.
Try structural variations–one word or two, hyphens, slashes, numbers? Also try different phonetic spellings.
5. The company doesn’t exist any more.
Companies change names, amalgamate, dissolve, and declare bankruptcy. Check sources like old NUANS microfiches, the Financial Post Survey of Predecessor and Defunct Companies, Directory of Obsolete Securities, Capital Changes Reporter, and old Moodys Manuals and other directories of defunct companies.
6. It’s not an incorporated business.
If there is no suffix it may not be an incorporated form of business such as a proprietorship or partnership.
The Canadian Police Information Centre (CPIC) was created in 1966 as an information system for Canadian law enforcement agencies. It contains, among other things, a vast list of stolen property.
The public may search for Stolen Vehicles and Bicycles by entering licence plates, VIN numbers, or serial numbers to verify for stolen vehicles or bicycles.
The search page may be found at http://www.cpic-cipc.ca/English/search.cfm.
The word research derives from Middle French; its literal meaning is ‘to investigate thoroughly’.
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A friend who works for a very security conscious organization surprised me when he asked why I had a plastic cup on my desk containing half a dozen dice cubes. Everybody knows why you keep dice at your desk, don’t they?
Continue reading ‘Information Security is a Roll of the Dice Away’
…just go to elgoog, and type in inurl:”ViewerFrame?Mode=” and up comes a long list, hundreds of unsecured webcams (or if you’re a lazy shit, then let me do it for you)…
If you look-up the IP address of your favorite company and search the results to find their unsecured webcam, then you might find something interesting and useful.