posted on Jul, 15 2003 @ 08:45 PM
This is a very good site that is used by journalists, as well as other researchers, to discover the connections of individuals, companies,
organizations, etc., to political affiliations and organized crime. This is a wonderful resource that will give the user enlightening information as
to the connections between an individual name and those who are in the respective person's social network. On the home page, click the option for
"namebase searches." On the next page, you then click on the option for "proximity search." From there, type in the first and last name. If the
first name is not known, type in only the last name. If you are looking for a company name, type the company's name in the box that is labeled
"first and last name."
>>>NameBase has been used by hundreds of journalists and researchers around the world since we began distributing our database on floppy disks in
1986. Even Oliver North knows about us.>It's getting absurd. One day someone from the Department of Justice called us and said, "I'm a federal
agent. I'm investigating someone and there are two citations in NameBase I need." Once it became clear that she wasn't registered and had no
intention of registering, and wouldn't get special treatment from us because she was a fed, she mentioned the word "subpoena." It was pointed out
that one of the citations was from the Washington Post in 1990, and the other was from a book that is linked on our site to used bookstores that offer
it for sale. Moreover, registration would cost less than seven cents a day at the usual rate of $50 for two years. End of conversation.>That was in
August, 2001. Two months later, in response to the World Trade Center terrorism, Congress passed a law that allows warrantless Web surveillance.
Between federal incompetence and federal intrusiveness, there's no telling where things are headed.>Yes, sometimes your searches will be restricted.
It depends on several factors: whether the search was referred by an Internet search engine, whether the data is in our server's cache already, and
how heavy the load is on our server at that particular moment. And if we get even a hint that the feds are interested in our logs, you can be sure
that we'll announce it. We'll probably shut down online access completely and go back to mailing out disks.