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Sunday, September 6, 2009

Beautiful Technology For Locating People

By Larry Hakimori

Last century saw more inventions than the whole recorded history of mankind.

Most individuals think that the IT world is the fastest growing sector. But it's not true. It is actually the medical world which is seeing the biggest growth. New medication and remedies are being found at a staggering rate.

Probably the biggest discovery of all is the discovery of stem cells, but this doesn't mean that Electronics sector has completely stalled either. There is a remarkable rise of new developments in the sector. Alas, some of these developments have been linked to controversy! A good example of this is reverse telephone number lookup. 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. It made the task almost impossible to perform (especially for those who lived in highly populated areas). What was once a nearly impossible task can now be done in mere seconds. Just go to any of the web-sites that offers the service (National Number Search) type in your telephone number and almost instantly you will have the information that you were looking for.

One can find out a lot of things using telephone digits. How easy is that? Unless the person hides this information you can get his home address and more. 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. 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 Bad folks 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.

In any case, even if some bad guys decide to use reverse phone lookup, it remains a very useful service, which we should all have access to. Their bad deeds should not prevent us from enjoying this service. In my opinion banning reverse phone look up, would be like banning forks, just because someone can use it as a weapon.

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