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Originally Posted by flylock shox
It's a good lesson about internet privacy too. You don't have to be a hacker to track down lots of personal information about someone who isn't careful about protecting it.
Doxxing (also doxing): I learned a new word today.
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Definitely, though I don't think I agree with what was being done as doxing, doxing to me involves hacking and social engineering, Googling someone's name that they've freely posted and following the links to other publicly posted profiles and so on isn't doxing to me, it's just looking at what people have intentionally placed on the Internet for everyone to see.
The other thing people need to keep in mind is on any forum or site there's a small set of people who are highly active and you can get an impression of the community from them, but those people are usually the tip of the iceberg. While probably only a few dozen people posted to any of the threads, hundreds or even thousands read them, and what those people think or do likely won't be the same as what one would expect from the general sense one gets from the community.
I've had to borrow money, and you know what I didn't do? Broadcast it to everyone I know let alone thousands or millions of people I didn't know, because I'd have no idea what people could/would do with that information.