On an MBC special which aired on November 8th, the show ran an investigation on the power of netizens.
Under the permission of gagwoman Lee Guk Ju, five students from a cyber-security school were given her name, her age, and her internet ID. With just these three pieces of information, what the students managed to find was shocking. Within 15 minutes, the students were able to find her internet password, and within an hour, her friends’ phone numbers, her education history, her home address, photos from her high school career, and email content sent to and from her friends.
All of this was done without the use of any illegal hacking programs, and the feat was attributed to the power of a new internet phenomenon, and what is now nicknamed the NCSI (Netizen Crime Scene Investigation).
South Korea is a unique case, at least in the sense that in other countries, especially America, the personal lives and other breaking news of celebrities are found through professional paparazzis and news agencies. However, South Korea, being one of the strongest IT nations in the world, puts netizens at the front of the investigations.
Netizens have made headlines on more than one occasion lately, and mostly for their ultra-fast pace in finding information. They are able to solve cases before police investigations even know where to start, making the confessions made by celebrities seem like child’s play.
A representative of a security enterprise stated, “As long as you’re skilled in making searches, finding personal information on a specific person isn’t that hard. People use their name, age, gender, and phone number without any suspicion online. All you need is one of those pieces, and it’s easy to gather all of the scattered data.”
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