News times bring new technology
Sometimes it’s hard to believe how advanced we’ve become.
Most people think that the IT world is the fastest growing environment. Nothing can be further from the truth! Health and medicinal world is the one with the most new discoveries. New medication and remedies are being found at a staggering rate. Every month there is a big new announcement being made by the medical community. This doesn’t mean that Electronics sector has stalled. There is a remarkable rise of new developments in the sector. Alas, some of these developments have been linked to controversy! Reverse phone lookup would be a good case. Before the digital version of the reverse phone lookup or the 411 service you had to manually lookup the phone number in a telephone directory. 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. Just go to any of the web-sites that offer the service type in your telephone number and almost instantly you will have the information that you were looking for.
You get so much information based on only one variable. Information like the first and last name of the user and address is readily available. A mobile phone lookup might provide you with even more surprising information. GPS and Cell Tower search might disclose the current physical location of the cell owner!
Potential benefits of a reverse number lookup are innumerable. Prank calls and harassment calls can now be traced and reported to authorities. You can 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. A loan shark might get the address of a poor gambling victim. I guess you see my point.
Hopefully a couple of bad apples won’t spoil it for everyone. If one bad guy does it, it doesn’t mean that the service is bad. Banning reverse phone look up, would be like banning forks, just because someone can use it as a weapon.
Last modified June 16, 2009Author 2658 > has blogged 37 times
