ebay What did your neighbor buy?

Visiting eBay, I stumbled upon the obvious omission of ideologues. There is such a feature (feedback), which affects the rating of buyers and sellers. After making a purchase and receiving the goods, you are strongly asked to rate the seller (“leave feedback”). You go to the page, give marks on several indicators - and everything seems to be. But! Thus, you leave an entry on the seller’s page, in which your user name, the value of the paid goods, its name, date are indicated. Having visited the page to any seller, we can see who, when, what, and for what amount he bought from him.



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The ability to hide the description of the purchased product is not provided to the user.



Do not leave feedback to the seller? But the seller himself will still leave it to you - as soon as you buy something. In addition, without giving the seller a positive assessment on all indicators, you risk spoiling relations with him and even remain without an after-sales guarantee.

Similarly, going to the page of any buyer (for example, jon *** h), we will see in which country he lives (not counting intermediaries, such as the shipito service), and also find out what and when he bought.





After spending quite a bit of time studying the customer profile, you can create a complete portrait, find out not only the size of his clothes and shoes, the brand of the car, but also the details of his home environment, information about his spouse, children.

All this information is available not only to registered eBay users: by entering a simple query into Google, we get the same result.



And the information seems to be almost impersonal. And there is, it would seem, nothing terrible. The email address is not specified, the home address is all the more ... However, many users use the same names when registering an account on eBay, in email addresses, on social networks, and on forums. Just a few minutes - and we have a complete idea of ​​where a person lives, where he works.



Matching multiple accounts with a real person will help eBay itself - by showing the history of the username change.



And having studied all the same feedback more closely, you can find a lot of things compromising - not for prying eyes.



Everyone remembers the sensational leak of customer data through Yandex . Apartment theft using social networks is no longer a news story 1 , 2 .

People acquire security systems for apartments and cars, blithely order intimate goods and prohibited porn materials - and records of all this remain in the history of purchases. Using the method described in this article, attackers can find out all about your apartment or get some information that would compromise you. I do not think anyone will be happy with such interference in their personal lives.

I hope that eBay will soon reflect and impersonalize some of the information.