Last century saw more inventions than the whole recorded history of mankind.
It is a popular belief that Information Technology saw the most advancements. Well that's not actually the case. In reality the medical community is the one that made the most discoveries. These advancements are extremely promising.
This is especially true in the field of genetics. Of course the Electronic Technology sector is not to be dismissed either. We've seen an amazing expansion in this sector as well. But some of it is of a debatable nature. Reverse phone lookup would be a good case which has tremendously facilitated a previously hard task. In the past we had to manually search in the phone book. This would take a regular person several hours at the very least.
Well times have changed. Now you can look up a phone number in seconds and headache free. All you have to do is go to a page such as: quick-ip-lookup.info/36/index.py, put in the phone number and hit search.
Potential benefits of a reverse number lookup are innumerable. Prank calls and harassment calls can now be traced and reported to authorities. Running a toll free number check can tell you the name of the company that was calling. Or maybe you just want to send your favourite uncle a Christmas present, but only have his phone number, well now you can quickly get the address that goes with it too.
If only we all had good intentions... Evil people can take advantage of this service as well. Some maniac can find out where you live if they have your phone number. A loan shark might get the address of a poor gambling victim. I guess you see my point.
There are many instances where this can do a substantial amount of harm. I sincerely hope that the bad guys won't spoil it for the rest of us. Just because they decide to cross the line it doesn't mean that others will follow their example. I'm sure I'm not the only one who's of the same opinion.