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Flying Dog You will not be doing anything illegal, all you are doing is using an aggregation tool that will pool a subset of the publicly available information (some or most of it lying in the dusty corners of the interwebs, where old data ends up) on the target. Gathering the information is not illegal Using the tool is not illegal or even immoral for that matter You are potentially going to use the tool to track someone that has in essence stolen - well misapproriated - something that belongs to you and are trying to track them down to regain possession of said property. Sometimes the effort involved in our endeavours far exceeds the value of the object or desired outcome, this usually falls into the 'It's a matter of principle' category!

Flying dog That just means that they don't get your hard earned - tongue in cheek, They Starve!

Hello Flying Dog Here is the low down on what you get from the free version of the tool Not for commercial use! Maximum of 12 results per transform You need to register on our website to use the client API keys expire every couple of days Runs on a (slower) server that is shared with all community users Communication between client as server is not encrypted Not updated until the next major version (and we know there are some bugs) No end user support – you are on your own.. No updates of transforms on server side Can only discover from online Paterva servers Paterva goes hungry.. I have highlighted the parts that are most pertinent to you! All the rest is rather moot considering that you won't be running any industrial grade searches through the system.

If you have an inclination towards making use of tools to accomplish the task of finding this person and mapping their online footprint you should make use of Maltego (https://www.paterva.com/web6/products/maltego.php) this is a tool commonly used in the company vulnerability assessment community to map the relationships and real world links between people and groups of people. There is a community version of the tool available (no fee) that will assist in cutting down the time it takes to find that one connection that will lead you to this miscreant Good Luck