So, when this guy made his move, it was a rare case of American bipartisan agreement. Which makes me wonder: Could anyone get Trump to answer how he feels about Luigi?

I get the sense any answer he gives would anger a lot of people that were formerly on his side.

Luigi did nothing wrong

Extremely true. We are "customer obsessed" which is why thousands of users having an annoying screen popping up confusing them is prioritized below one lady who knows the CEO being unable to do an incredibly niche thing that we never said you could do on our platform.

New law: CEOs and their family are exempt from any and all forms of surveillance.
Oh wait, it's actually an old law.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42909921

The service is apparently signalhire

https://news.ycombinator.com/

Enjoy

Hacker News

There is also this: https://www.modernhn.com/

I think the point of the post is that they PAID money to the data collectors to get data they themselves don't want collected, thus becoming part of the problem. That said, I have done the free version of this multiple times with great success!

1. Start finding names. This can be easy, but if you're trying to deal with a subsidiary, a private company, or a massive conglomerate, it might be more difficult. You can start with things like CEO & COO. Search for things like VP/SVP/EVP/Head of Customer Service (or Customer Experience). Depending on the problem you're trying to solve, you might look for more specific job titles like CIO, Technical Operations, Network Operations, Accounts, etc. Get several names for roles that might make sense.

2. Find the email address format for the company. Common ones are first initial + last name, FirstName_LastName, etc.

3. Send an email to all of the names you collected in the company's email address format. Hopefully several of the names are reasonably distinct to make it likely you got the right person. Of course, it's unlikely that the CEO is John_Smith3, they're never going to take the numbered address. Be (somewhat) polite, be specific, be as brief as possible; ideally make a reasonable request to resolve the problem. You don't want to come across as an unhinged lunatic and you don't (necessarily) need to threaten any specific action. Just ask for their help resolving the problem.

What happens next? They will likely forward the message to someone who has the ability to solve the problem. That person will contact you and make things happen that everyone else said was not possible. You do need to have reasonable expectations though. If you contact your ISP and tell them their outage cost you $1M in lost business, don't expect much help. But if you tell them you were inappropriately charged $500 for equipment you returned 6 months ago, they'll probably fix that for you.

Helpful places to find names:

• About section of the company website
• News section of the company website
• Wikipedia
• LinkedIn
• Quarterly Earnings reports
• Industry-specific news sites
• Google News search

My biggest challenge has been with companies that constantly reorg, so I find a name in a news article from 2 years ago and they've already changed roles.

OSINT is the term you're looking for.

Edit: and this particular person was apparently talking about buying the data off signalhire.

OSINT usually consists of collecting all of the publicly available data on a "target" (person or company usually) and correlating it all together to reveal things not explicitly public (or at least not all in one spot). "Open source" intelligence. Term is used by military, intelligence agencies, and pen-testers.

Sounds like you need to buy an executive's personal info.

If you're blocked from getting service, torching your account is probably your own next step.

If they send you a cease and desist, you just use it for toilet paper and don't re-contact. Torch your own account.