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datsci_est_2015yesterday at 2:54 AM1 replyview on HN

Sounds like you don’t understand doxing and may be overly sympathetic to a reactionary billionaire’s propaganda machine.

Doxing for the most part is simply aggregating publicly available information on an individual and broadcasting it to a wider audience. Rarely does it require more serious sleuthing or even “hacking”, although those are the more notorious instances because it involves someone who may have been trying to hide their identity for various reasons.


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tbrownawyesterday at 5:59 AM

> don’t understand doxing

No, it's that people keep misusing that word for a broader and broader class of things. Pushing back on dilution of meaning isn't a lack of understanding.

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