It's a great to kill the trolling but the use of the first and last name is a bit excessive. I've generally found it pretty easy to ignore a troll and go along my way. Most of the time, I have better things to do. On the other hand, I have a general feeling that some trolls have a good amount of time to spend. Do I want my name posted all forum? If my name was common as hell I would care less. If my name is unique.... no way.
The example at the end of the article is golden. I did a similar test with one of my buddies who I have known from WOW. His name is fairly unique and I just ran with that on Google. Within a few minutes I had a few past addresses, parents names and a few other small things. I even made an effort to NOT use the extra help from a social networking site. Regardless, its a pretty interesting move considering battle.net accounts are targeted pretty heavy by scams already.
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