Embracing Creepy Stalking is just plain creepy. It just is. A weird guy who takes an interest in a woman he’s never met, a girl who has no idea he even exists. Sometimes it starts with “Blog Stalking”, cruising an interesting blog over and over, or visiting a Discussion Forum to read a girl’s posts, hitting refresh as neurotically as clicking a pen. But, when stalking moves from watching through the blue glow of the monitor to real life watching through the living room window, it is the cruelty of stalking that strikes me the most. The silent Watcher has no empathy for his Victim. He just sits and watches as events and occurrences unfold. No different than the detached coldness of the Engineer monitoring a Network. This notion of the emotionally removed Stalker was taking up room in my head when Kevin Kelleher’s blog on the last day of Web 2.0 Summit 2011 was served up on the web page I was reading. I didn’t see the blog until 5 days later, but it struck a chord noneth
Stalking: How I used Social Engineering, security loop holes and publicly available information to Stalk my Stalker