Amazing mind reader reveals his 'gift'
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited as a vivid demonstration of how much personal data is findable and shared online, in privacy and tracking threads.
What it is
A Belgian bank-safety campaign video in which a supposed clairvoyant stuns people by revealing personal financial details, then shows he found them all online. It warns viewers to be careful about what they share and about online banking security.
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What Hacker News said
Cites fruchtose · 2012-09 · on “Dave The Incredible Mindreader – How Does He Do It?”
This link nothing but blogspam. Just go here for the video that the link pads with meaningless text: [this video]
Cites kelseydh · 2016-03 · on “Trackers”
That reminds me a lot of this video: [this video] Would be great to make one similar combining the two concepts in regards to sharing phone data.
Cites dredmorbius · 2021-03 · on “How can you tell if someone is lying?”
The notion that behavioural tics can betray lying (or truth-telling) is also part of the kayfabye / stage dressing of truth-determination and vetting. If you have a set of props (polygraph, truth-teller, various actual or fabricated observations, etc.) that you can present as a plausible basis for claiming someone is lying, then you can apply more severe psychological pressure, possibly getting them to break and confess, though often also simply forcing a false confession, a very real hazard. (See various accounts suggesting that friendly-demeanor interrogation is far more useful.) In the account I detailed in an earlier comment on this thread, I'd ... let slip to people who I thought might