Need a modern identity?

My initial reaction to FakeNameGenerator.com was dismay. My gut told me it was completely insane. In reality it was just a bunch of a random information, done well. FNG doesn’t just produce a modern name based of the available US data. They produce entire personalities off a statistical bunch of data and have worked hard on expanding it.

Anyone covering 22 countries including the newest, Poland, is working pretty hard. Not to mention they are using actual addresses in those countries. That’s not a trivial random table. It took work. If you are freaked out like I was at the start, its all public information. A SSN? The US government provides a validation service. Phone numbers? Many claim to do reverse phone number lookup but simply searching for them works fine. Many people, like sheep, put them on Facebook. Facebook has a an excellent privacy track record and has no interest in your data.

Beyond the addresses, most of its randomly generated. Freaky but it just follows a well known pattern. I’m not sure when I’ll need a tracking number for an identity but who knows. The first GM that makes me quote the tracking number might get buried in a landfill. I’m just saying. I’ll leave his head out of the ground.