ZabaSearch roils a man named Zaba

ZabaSearch has become the embodiment of how the Web will destroy privacy to many. Type in a name and the site will dish up addresses, phone numbers and cheap reports on your credit history and criminal record. See your rap sheet yourself!

The URL is www.zabasearch.com. However, www.zaba.com is owned by Stefak Zaba, an HP researcher in Bristol, England, who, ironically, specializes in security and privacy.

"I have no connection at all with those people," he writes on his Web site. "You can barely imagine just how heartily I wish they'd chosen some other word than my surname...In my opinion, their operation is a gross and flagrant violation of US residents' reasonable expectations of privacy and of the internationally endorsed principles of privacy."

Zaba, though, helpfully points out the complicated method for getting yourself off ZabaSearch. He got a hundred "remove me" messages alone from people in April.