subject: These Advances Are, Of Course, Nice To Have When We Need Them, But We Are Also Taking Chances With O [print this page] Sometimes it's hard to believe how advanced we've become.
It is a popular belief that Information Technology saw the most advancements. Well that's not really the case. In reality the medical community is the one that made the most discoveries. These advancements are extremely promising.
Every month there is a big new announcement being made by the medical community. This is not to say that IT is lagging far behind either. Information technology has seen its fair share of growth also. Unfortunately some of it is quite controversial. Let's take reverse phone book lookup as an example. Before if you wanted to get a name of a person you would need to manually look for the phone number in a telephone book. Can you imagine sifting through all of these phone numbers? I sure can't.
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 : backwards-lookup.com/803/361/, put in the phone number and hit search.
Information like the first and last name of the user and address is readily available. In the case of cell phone lookup you might get even more information. For example if the carrier supports this feature you might be able to get the actual location of an individual to whom the number belongs!
You can imagine how useful this reverse telephone number look up can be. One can protect himself effectively against prank callers and stalkers. You can even reverse lookup an organizations toll free number to find their name. If you were expecting an important telephone call and missed one, you can also look it up.
Unfortunately the bad guys can take advantage of the situation as well. A sexual predator might use this to find the address of his victim.
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.
