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Posted by Rhino on January 14, 2005, 11:38 am
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This is very possibly the wrong place to ask this so I'd appreciate any
suggestions on better places to ask....
I want to post my resume on my friend's server so that I can give the URL
out to prospective employers. However, since I was planning to put my street
address, email address, and phone number in the resume, I am concerned that
this information will wind up getting harvested by telemarketers, perhaps
via "cataloging spiders" or "automated screen scrapers" or other automated
tools. I definitely DON'T want telemarketers calling me, sending me snail
mail spam, emailing me, or banging on my door to flog their wares.
Is there any reasonably secure way to put this information on a web page so
that telemarketers or others cannot harvest my information against my
wishes? What percentage would you put on the security offered by this
technique? 100%? 80%? 20%?
If the best I can hope for is only 80% security, then I'm inclined to leave
my snail mail address and phone number off the resume, use a throwaway
Hotmail-type email address, and suggest that visitors of the page use the
Hotmail-type email to get my street address or phone number if they want
them. Then, of course, I would only give that information out to what I
believed were legitimate prospective employers.
Or am I being way too paranoid? I've heard a lot about identity theft in
recent years so maybe I'm over-reacting to the risk....
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so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to
make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." - C.A.R.
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Posted by Philipp Lenssen on January 14, 2005, 4:59 pm
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Rhino wrote:
> Is there any reasonably secure way to put this information on a web
> page so that telemarketers or others cannot harvest my information
> against my wishes? What percentage would you put on the security
> offered by this technique? 100%? 80%? 20%?
Several ways:
1. Password-protect the page, and send the password via email to those
who should get to the site.
2. Simply exclude search engines via the Robots.txt file, or meta-tags.
(You may still be found, but not as easy.)
3. Attach your Resume to the email in Word-Format.
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Posted by Sander Tekelenburg on January 14, 2005, 11:57 pm
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> Rhino wrote:
>
> > Is there any reasonably secure way to put this information on a web
> > page
[...]
> 2. Simply exclude search engines via the Robots.txt file, or meta-tags.
> (You may still be found, but not as easy.)
To the best of my knowledge that's nonsense. There is nothing about
robots.txt that offers any level of security. Consider it a mechanism to
politely request to not index the contents of directory x, no more.
> 3. Attach your Resume to the email in Word-Format.
Perhaps if you're only interested in jobs in M$-only-land, yes ;)
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Posted by Philipp Lenssen on January 17, 2005, 12:57 pm
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> > 2. Simply exclude search engines via the Robots.txt file, or
> > meta-tags. (You may still be found, but not as easy.)
>
> To the best of my knowledge that's nonsense. There is nothing about
> robots.txt that offers any level of security. Consider it a mechanism
> to politely request to not index the contents of directory x, no more.
>
Which is why I said "You may still be found, but not as easy." And
yeah, Google is respecting Robots.txt, and many people use Google, so
*you may not be found as easy*. I exclude my Resumee from Google simply
because I don't want people to find it that easily. I still know it's
public, and there's no harm in that. It's just hidden from 5-second
googling.
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Posted by Eric Kenneth Bustad on January 14, 2005, 7:47 pm
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>
>I want to post my resume on my friend's server so that I can give the URL
>out to prospective employers. However, since I was planning to put my street
>address, email address, and phone number in the resume, I am concerned that
>this information will wind up getting harvested by telemarketers, perhaps
>via "cataloging spiders" or "automated screen scrapers" or other automated
>tools. I definitely DON'T want telemarketers calling me, sending me snail
>mail spam, emailing me, or banging on my door to flog their wares.
>
>[snip]
I wouldn't worry too much about it. My resume has been on the web for
several years in plain html format with all that info and I haven't had
a problem with any of that.
= Eric
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