Getting bored of Googling old friends to see if you have more hair and a smaller waistline than them? Check out this guy's article describing how he used Amazon, Yahoo!, and Google Maps to pinpoint people likely to lead civil war (or who may just attend one of our fine Liberal Arts universities and have no evil intentions whatsoever). *Warning* - the article goes in some detail about the code used to accomplish this, but you'll get the general theme down without having to learn TCL.
Ultimately, this is no different than what is done in any good data mining application, it's merely meant to show what can be found by manipulating a few disparate data sources around the Internet.
...Plus, you don't need an unauthorized wiretap program to accomplish this, it's all (currently) legal!
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