back to article Mega money, unfathomable violence pervade thriving underground doxxing scene

Recently published interviews with known doxxers reveal the incredible finances behind the practice and how their extortion tactics are becoming increasingly violent. Doxxing is the term that's used to describe when an individual purposefully reveals the true identity of someone who was or would otherwise expect to be …

  1. Baird34

    ViLE by name, vile by nature.

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Quis documenta ipsos documentorum?

    (Anon, obviously)

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    "The US Department of Homeland Security suggests enabling privacy settings on social media, using complex passwords, multi-factor authentication, and limiting the amount of personal information you share online to avoid being doxxed."

    What's the use of doing that when the platforms themselves sell that same data onwards along with keystrokes and click habits FFS.

    The government will never recommend NOT using Facebook or other social media sites. They spy on everyone using those same sites as well.

    1. Snake Silver badge

      Don't go pointing fingers at 'government spying' when private corporations do it far better, and for profit as well!

  4. IGotOut Silver badge

    Think; f the children...

    ..that old chestnut.

    Nope, he's a scumbag, his associates are scumbags and the world would be better off without them. I smiled when I heard one of them got kidnapped...now just for the rest of them.

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  6. amanfromMars 1 Silver badge

    Postmodern 0Day Blockbuster CodeXSSXXXX Rumbled .... Unknown Scenarios Ahead

    Mega money for unfathomable violence provides thriving overground dead persons walking scenes is the Wild Wacky Western picture show that fiat currency churn needs to supply in order to survive and protect and serve and server the prosperity of its market manipulators ...... but its success does require it NOT being an increasingly widely known known fact/feature/secret ....... and that titanic ship sunk some time ago.

    Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tends to be the difficult ones. ..... Donald H. Rumsfeld, .... DoD News Briefing, February 12, 2002 11:30 AM EDT

    And there be epic future tales to tell and dilemmas to confront and fundamentally resolve that mainstream media muppets and moguls and secret intelligence service operators be rightfully terrified of acknowledging because of their collective guilt in providing present destructive global seeds in both current and recently past audiovisual and neurolinguistic feeds ...... and that be both an old style, conventional and traditional crime and novel cyber crime against humanity.

    J’accuse.

    Roll up, roll up for the magical mystery tour, step right this way ....... :-)

  7. Bebu Silver badge
    Windows

    "I've a little list..."*

    into which these supernumerary worms will be inserted.

    *...I've got a little list / Of society offenders who might well be underground / And who never would be missed!

    G&S The Mikado 1885

  8. ecofeco Silver badge

    I thought what I'd do was

    "...I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes."

    I was suddenly reminded of this.

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