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looks like I used the net from 1988 to 2002 and then quit.

According to this cpu6502 is a 4 year old named Stefan from Germany. So the question remains. Where were you from 2002-2008?

For those of us who wish to use social networking and other friendly but intrusive aspects of the web...If you haven't already, you better start scrubbing your visible online information. Reduce your online presence.
A good place to start viewing your publicly available information is http://www.pipl.com/

From there you can decide whether or not it is acceptable information and take the appropriate measures.

Maybe they don't need to get past restrictions. Perhaps there's already enough info out there to hang you with. Go search for yourself at www.pipl.com. It's frightening... I just searched and found a usenet posts I made in '97. Thankfully they're just posts to technical discussions (hardware, programming, etc).

Didn't find me, even though my personal website comes up top when you google my real name. Not all that effective!

... but how do these "trawlers" get to see what's on, say, a Facebook page if viewing permission has been given only to a limited set of trusted people? Does Facebook permit trawlers access to such restricted information? Do they use subterfuge to get past the restrictions? How?

Maybe they don't need to get past restrictions. Perhaps there's already enough info out there to hang you with. Go search for yourself at www.pipl.com. It's frightening... I just searched and found a usenet posts I made in '97. Thankfully they're just posts to technical discussions (hardware, programming, etc).

I once spoke to a woman who said she uses pipl.com to attempt to gather information proving people are fraudulently obtaining worker's compensation benefits, such as a person who says they can no longer walk, but post photos this week of them out dancing.

If this is the Sophia Huyer that I'm thinking of, then if she has her way she'll rid aeroplanes of other kinds of "nuts" ...

Check it out, you will all be surprised what it will find:

http://www.pipl.com/

You must be either very young, keep your personal info very private, or some other combination of things. I can't seem to find a reasonable match for that alias Devin Lott.