linking real and virtual world identities
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Linking real and virtual world identities. Muhammad Adnan. Identities of individuals in the real world. Name (Forename & Surname) Socio-economic characteristics of the geographical areas . Most of us also have virtual identities. Email address; s ocial m edia accounts - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Linking real and virtual world identities
Muhammad Adnan
Identities of individuals in the real world
• Name (Forename & Surname) • Socio-economic characteristics of the geographical
areas
Most of us also have virtual identities• Email address; social media accounts• Harvesting these data has interesting potential
applications• Cyber crime• Cyber marketing
CACI Email Data
• Total number of records:1,154,116 (2002 - 2008)
• Data fields areTitle, Forename, Surname, Address, Postcode,
• 1,920 records have no name
• 183,000 records have no postcode
Email data coverage
%age of the email data in each Output Area
Most frequent email domains
hotm
ail.co
m
hotm
ail.co
.uk
yaho
o.co.u
k
aol.c
om
btinte
rnet.c
om
yaho
o.com
ntlworl
d.com
gmail
.com
live.c
o.uk
goog
lemail
.com
msn.co
m
bluey
onde
r.co.u
k
tisca
li.co.u
k
sky.c
om
talkta
lk.ne
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50000
100000
150000
200000
250000
hotmail.com 236067hotmail.co.uk 168894yahoo.co.uk 122136aol.com 96743btinternet.com 70213yahoo.com 53410ntlworld.com 47766gmail.com 30657live.co.uk 25133googlemail.com 23720msn.com 23367blueyonder.co.uk 19486tiscali.co.uk 19046sky.com 18777talktalk.net 16970
What % of the people use their identity as part of their email address
• 546,111 (47%) records had surname as part of the email address• [email protected] (Surname: culliford)
• 307,496 (26%) records had both forename and surname as part of the email address• [email protected]
(Surname: bradshaw ; Forename: john)
Who use long email addresses ?
• Hispanice, Portugese, and Indians have long email addresses (Average length: 13 characters)
• South Indians have longer email address than North Indians
ANA.ARAUJO3909@HOTMAIL>COM (14 characters)[email protected] (25 characters)[email protected] (17 characters)
[email protected] (18 characters)[email protected] (13 characters)
Top email domain for each Output Area
Top email domains against (OAC, 2001)
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