Anyone else practice-dox people they know irl? -

[Sage In All Fields]

I get bored sometimes and try to find the addresses of my coworkers, handles they've posted stuff with, stuff like that. It's interesting to see what's underneath the person you see on the daily. I never post it anywhere because that would be messed up, but it's good practice and I find it interesting.

 

[Maskull]

I value and respect privacy enough that I don't go digging through peoples' personal lives like this.

 

[Sage In All Fields]

I value and respect privacy enough that I don't go digging through peoples' personal lives like this.

Eh, I'd understand if it was like people's DMs or something, but I'm just looking at public stuff

 

[Furret]

Nope, and if I found out that someone I knew was doing it I'd be creeped out.

 

[Freshly Baked Socks]

Yes. I study all public records and keep notes on all my neighbors. I am a modern day Gladys Kravitz.

 

[AMERICA]

Yes. It's fun, and also it helps you keep in perspective how vulnerable your own information is.
I have never doxed anyone publicly or for malicious purposes. It has always been a private hobby to pass the time. Sometimes people I know IRL, but it's more fun to look into people met in passing online who think they're hiding

Here is the scary thing: people have told me personal information about themselves, 10 years ago, that I never could have used to find them at the time, but because of how information has changed online, it is now really easy to find them using those details. If I can't find someone today, I'll probably be able to find someone in 5 years if I care enough to remember, unless they're really trying to hide.

A lot of it becomes possible due to various big data dumps/leaks, they let you snowball a single data point like an e-mail address into more data points that can also snowball. That's the really scary thing, imo. I want everyone to protect themselves online, and not just the obvious, public stuff.

Oh yeah, also a lot of things people think is private is actually publicly available info and not even behind a paywall and it's all legal. Be careful out there.

Semi-related, It reminds me a bit of how criminals get caught for crimes they committed countless years ago, before DNA evidence was a big thing

 

[XYZpdq]

I've occasionally done it to family out of curiosity, but they always ended up everything I already knew, and usually a lot less.

 

[Pope of Degeneracy]

One time my doxing skills came in handy when I was trying to contact someone making suicide threats. Nigga turned off his phone and DFEd all social media but since I knew his dad's name and house ownership, I got a hold of him with his landline