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by gilgad13 5710 days ago
I'd like to think that the point of your investigation isn't so much that Amazon will be pissed, but, "Look at how much we were able to find out about a random guy through just his username and blog post"

I think most users have already accepted that information previously considered private is now available to most of the world. The step from anonominity to the information posted above is a hell of a lot more scary than from the information posted above to someone knowing your current location.

I know that the point of the article was that the author was able to log into random users accounts, but the scary part was supposed to be that the author knew exactly who and where they are. But when they give away information like the above on a regular basis, I honestly think users could care less.