Post by High Priestess on Sept 17, 2018 4:54:55 GMT
I came across this article, "How to Rob an Airbnb", which basically gives step by step instructions on how any enterprising criminal, spy, government agent, nosy neighbor or anti-Airbnb activist, could find out private information about many hosts who have listings on Airbnb.
I suspect some of this information is being used by the "Host Compliance" type companies which sell themselves as having sleuthing skills to help cities enforce STR rules.
hackernoon.com/how-to-rob-an-airbnb-252e7e7eda44
Ever wanted to rob a house?
We discovered that, with nothing more than publicly-available data, you can figure out the real names and addresses of 40% of houses listed on Airbnb. We’ll show you how anyone could use this method to rob their choice of 1.2 million houses — and other ways this could hurt Airbnb’s bottom line.
I suspect some of this information is being used by the "Host Compliance" type companies which sell themselves as having sleuthing skills to help cities enforce STR rules.
hackernoon.com/how-to-rob-an-airbnb-252e7e7eda44
Ever wanted to rob a house?
We discovered that, with nothing more than publicly-available data, you can figure out the real names and addresses of 40% of houses listed on Airbnb. We’ll show you how anyone could use this method to rob their choice of 1.2 million houses — and other ways this could hurt Airbnb’s bottom line.