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Doxing -- Something To Expect More of In 2015
HughPickens.com writes: When asked about trends to expect in 2015, Bruce Schneier points to doxing as a likely candidate. Doxing is not new, dating back to at least 1987 when Robert Bork's video tape rentals were leaked to the press. Usually it's things like an address and phone number, but it can also be credit card details, medical information, private e-mails—pretty much anything an assailant can get his hands on. "Everyone from political activists to hackers to government leaders has now learned how effective this attack is. Everyone from common individuals to corporate executives to government leaders now fears this will happen to them. And I believe this will change how we think about computing and the Internet."
I have seen until now is that is in vogue is bullshitting. Stop making up new words to look smart.
For those too lazy to google:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I tried reading that link, but couldnt for the life of me get wtf it all was about..
So this bork guy rented movies, some other guy wrote about it.. and.. what? Bork got pissed?
I dont get it, wheres the story there??
That must be the top NON story ive EVER come uppon in my life. Equating it to doxing is like equating brushing againts someone on the train to calling it rape.
Is that everyone has some skeletons in the closet they're hiding. Yours might not be as severe as someone else's, or it may be from back when you were a stupid teen. But there's something that would embarrass you or tarnish your reputation if it were made public. Maybe you tried smoking weed in college, or you had sex with your high school GF when she (and you) were technically underage, or all manner of other things.
So if facts uncovered by doxing becomes accepted as legitimate grounds for disqualification, then the only people who will get the good job positions or get elected will be the liars who are exceptionally good at covering up their history or shifting blame onto others.
Instead, what needs to happen is for people to stop demanding perfection from others. Everyone is human, and humans are fallible. Someone who claims to have never failed, to have always done the right thing, is almost certainly a liar, a con artist.. That's what should raise suspicion about someone's fitness for a job or elected office - the absence of any skeletons in the closet. If society can change to where we accept that we're all flawed and that a few flaws shouldn't automatically disqualify us, then doxing largely becomes irrelevant and IMHO our world will become a much nicer place.
Doxing is releasing private information to the public. Names and addresses are not private information. Drama queens have tried to redefine this in vain attempts to control who gets to use the information they've already provided online.
Eg: John Doe posts a blog entry loaded with clickbait fallacy under his real name, looking for a reaction to boost his lack of self esteem and gain e-prestige, but wasn't ready for criticism. When his post doesn't quite get the attention he was looking for, some type his name into a search engine and find his address and telephone and post this already public information on some forum. If he gains a lot of notoriety, some will go further, armed with the already public info to pick away at what else may be public, but not published like his name and address. Rather than address his shoddy argument, he claims he was 'doxed' instead, ignoring the fact it was his fault for associating his real name with his post in the first place.
Social justice warriors LOVE to fox people and threaten them and their employers if they dare have differing points of view (all while claiming to be the VICTIMS of doxxing, themselves).
It's not a secret that you have body parts. But it's a violation of your privacy to publish photos of them against your will.
Bonus round... doesn't happen that often at work or play or grocery shopping.
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TFA mentions Gamergate in the context of the doxxing but all the victims mentioned just happen to be on the anti-GG side (innocent mistake, I'm sure).
Pro-GG people have been doxxed:
http://imgur.com/BNlLKcn
So was the creator of #notyourshield, and his workplace was harassed until he was fired:
https://twitter.com/Moldybars/...
http://i.imgur.com/9ieHMu9.png
A prominent anti-GGer called for the doxxing of all Gamergate supporters: http://i.gyazo.com/5db582013ac...
At least the pro-GG makes an effort to detect, condemn, and report this shitty behavior, no matter which side it comes from.
It's not a secret that you have body parts. But it's a violation of your privacy to publish photos of them against your will.
But it doesn't bear much rational scrutiny. Say I post a picture of my genitals on the web. Does anyone actually care? Porn is so readily available that a random picture of some parts of someone's body is not very interesting unless that person is famous. Even then, it's still not interesting to me. We all have bodies. Why are people so hung up about them? Why do I care if someone sees them? If someone enjoys it, well good luck to them. Merely seeing genitals does not even approach the intimacy of real physical sex. Porn has destroyed all that frustrating curiosity that us oldies had to endure as kids. Try hanging out with nudists for a while. No-one cares about your genitals unless you are a supermodel, and then only for 5 minutes, if that. This whole puritanical attitude to bodies is unhealthy and unnatural.
There are floors after floors of 300 pounds virgins working overtime in various secret NSA bunkers voting every truth down to make sure the public stay dumb.
Ignorant is bliss. USA! USA! FUCK YEAH!
Or, we could use the correct wording for each situation, brought to you by one of those English dictionary's you had at school.
Usually it's things like an address and phone number, but it can also be credit card details, medical information, private e-mails—pretty much anything an assailant can get his hands on
Pretty simple: Identity Theft.
This is an increasingly common tactic used by people who disagree with other people.
You're a racist? Let's get you fired:
http://gettingracistsfired.com...
You're a scumbag who doesn't deliver on a kickstarter? Let's bother your parents:
https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...
Sure, this isn't new - the latter is just an extension of small-town "you come around here doing that again and I'll be talking to your mama". But the motive and intent are different. It's not about the parents being the authority figure instilling some sense into the kid, but about harassing the parents so that they, too, will blame the 'kid' for woes.
In the former case, it hinges on when things you say are personal, and when they are things you say as a representative of a company.
Post on company blog - company.
Post on facebook with place of employ listed - apparently, company.
Post on twitter with no place of employ listed but people find out through your name and location anyway - according to that blog, company.
Post on a random forum under a pseudonym but given enough searching around have your place of employ found - if you're thinking this should be personal, you're disagreeing with that site.
Increasingly, "what you do in your personal time is your own business" no longer flies, because whatever you do in your personal time can - thanks to the pressure power of social media - very much become your employer's business... even if they have no issue with you personally, but get negative attention for employing you.
- From one employee manual, in context about outside employment but easily interpreted to also apply to these cases.
The summary is almost as long as the linked blog post, which reads more like a "Computer Guy" column in a magazine for retired dentists than Slashdot material.
My favorite part:
"In 2014, several women were doxed by male gamers trying to intimidate them into keeping silent about sexism in computer games."
Wuss.
lucm, indeed.
Good thing I had the foresight to made it difficult to impossible to associate any online nickname or username or URL with my actual name like 8+ years ago.
/. wants to cover Gamergate, but doesn't want to be honest and upfront that it's doing so (and taking a side). That's because users are in charge of the discussion, and we (or at least most of us) don't buy the "misogyny and harassment" narrative no matter how many times they repeat it without evidence. So this is at least the dozenth article to follow the template "misogyny, harassment, threats, misogyny, harassment, threats . . . oh BTW Gamergate."
/., because even though it is hopelessly anti-GG, it's at least upfront that the GG scandal is the topic of discussion.
The tactic is sad and (by now) easily recognizable for what it is: a thinly-veiled smear. It's why I said this summary was the most unbiased GG summary on
Truly.
Pretending this is my office full of bitter coworkers..
See subject-line, & this -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT (complete with threats):
"you're apk, you live in syracuse, your address is 903 e division st. ... everyone here thinks you're a fag, an idiot, and I wouldn't be surprised if one of these days somebody showed up at your house to shut you up for good." - by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 15, 2011 @04:11PM (#37726076)
(The hilarious part of that, is that @ the time that was written I didn't LIVE there then since I was travelling for work: lol!)
Additionally: Apparently some weak TROLL didn't *LIKE* that I put that up here, seeing they downmodded it here last time I posted it -> http://yro.slashdot.org/commen... which really only proves trolls can't HANDLE truth!
(Go on, downmod it again & I'll just do what I do, via my ability to post as AC here, with NO limits (no "strings on me", ala Ultron from the upcoming AVENGERS movie), & run them DRY of their effete modpoints, easily).
APK
P.S.=> The root of my being "doxed" was a known imbecile & troll from arstechnica named Jeremy Reimer who impersonated me on his forum which I asked to be taken down nicely by email. He asked me to prove who I was to do so I sent him my address & he had spread it all over the internet (Besides - wreck my home or stuff, or attempt to physically harm me - good luck, I'd put them in the hospital or morgue (wouldn't be some "1st" for me)? I have 2 options - attack back, & WHEN/IF I do, you're not walking out OR I'm fully insured, you'd be doing me a FAVOR, since the claim'd be easily substantiatable from that threat & OTHERS like it I've gotten (as I did what I was instructed to do by law enforcement so I've got the legit "DR"#'s from those reports to make the claim. Then the idiots would have insurance companies after them, who would file with THEIR ATTORNEYS to get where they came from via IP etc. & pursue it, not I. I wouldn't have to LIFT A FINGER!))... apk
The ones who get elected will be the the ones that the holders of the information choose - they simply won't reveal their video rental habits or out-of-context emails.
So, if, hypothetically, some agency were logging all of the internet activity of everyone, they'd have a lot of power over anyone who wanted to do something that required public approval. At a minimum they'd probably be able to make sure that their agency survived despite scandal after scandal, including those which reveal the existence of this very plan, and even documented nefarious use of the collected information, whether for manipulating politicians, or more mundane extortion, or stalking ex's, etc.
A world in which people look past the weird habits of their neighbors instead of looking for a reason to feel superior to them is a pretty lofty idea to hope for. Possibly the only remaining option is to have enough competing organizations using this tactic that it affects everyone, eventually inoculating society from the tactic.
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Wow, "investigative journalist"! I didn't know the NSA pays you for fucking around in gay bathhouses. Where do I apply?
So if facts uncovered by doxing becomes accepted as legitimate grounds for disqualification, then the only people who will get the good job positions or get elected will be the liars who are exceptionally good at covering up their history or shifting blame onto others.
What will happen is that everyone will realize they have skeletons, everyone growing up now will have all kinds of embarrassing things embedded in the internet to be found - so by and large people will simply stop caring about what things are uncovered about someone, unless they are truly monstrous.
So you will eventually get your wish. You cannot get it now, because people cannot really change in that way... it needs to be something built up over a long period of time. But it will happen.
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