Most of us nowadays rely heavily on the internet to enjoy social media, online education, remote work, and all sorts of entertainment and amusements on online platforms. But widespread utilization doesn’t equal widespread understanding, unfortunately. The good news is that apparently there are plenty of ways to stay safe when online but how specifically could this be done smartly in order to preserve our psycho-physical integrity? Let’s ‘talk for instance about doxing, a topic which we are already familiar with and let’s try to list and go through all the tricks we could put in practice in our daily lives to
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Gender Based Doxxing and Swatting
Introduction Doxxing is shorthand for ‘dropping documents’ and is ascribed to a phenomenon where a person’s private information is released publicly. Shockingly, a 2016 study by CIPHR found that, on average, 30% of Americans over the age of fifteen have experienced an invasion of privacy (Lenhart et al., 2016). This included ‘being hacked, having information about or images of the person exposed online without their permission, or, being impersonated’ (Lenhart et al., 2016). This study also found that 72% of American Internet users have witnessed online harassment or abuse (Lenhart et al., 2016). Online abuse and harassment have specific risks
Doxing
Doxing is an English term, derived from dox which is the abbreviation for documents, which as a neologism made its appearance online at the end of the first decade of 2000. However, the phenomenon has been present in the hacker community since the 90s. Historically, with the term doxing (also known as doxing) people used to refer to the act of de-anonymizing a person online, especially back in the days, when internet users preferred to use nicknames online media platforms to create their virtual persona, instead of their real names. Now, with the evolution of the habits of the utilization
Have you heard about doxxing?
The internet has become an integral component of our daily lives. In fact, it is not an understatement to say that a day would be absolutely ruined if online services were interrupted. Many people’s lives would be brought to a halt if this happened due to our current reliance on the internet. The web ecosystem has been suffering major changes since the 90s especially at the behavioural level having social dynamics as one of the leading drivers in the process. The transition from a dialogical perspective to an interventional angle started becoming visible in the last couple of years. This
Doxxing
The term “doxxing” comes from the expression “dropping dox” as in “document dropping”, which was a revenge tactic used by internet users that maliciously release someone’s private information. What does doxing entail? Why it is bad and why has it slowly turned into a powerful online weapon? Doxxing has been around a long time on the internet, as long as it has been existing. It refers to the search for and publication of private personal information of people. It can be any kind of personal info; names, telephone numbers, addresses, or bank account numbers of virtually anyone, from anonymous internet