What is Doxxing | How to Protect Yourself

In this video, you will know what is doxxing and how to protect yourself. Doxxing or doxing is a short form of ‘dropping docs,' which is when a person drops the documents about its rival. It could reveal the identity of their rival and harm their business.

In the internet world, doxxing is a type of cyber attack that involves searching and posting personal and identifiable information about an individual. Usually, the attacker research and analyzes the information you posted online and reveals your identity.

The video contains the following topics-

1- What is doxxing?
2- Why people dox?
3- Is doxxing illegal?
4- Are you at risk of doxxing?
5- How to avoid getting doxxed.

Watch the whole video to get a better understanding of the topic.

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[jwgoon]

Step 1: Never put your address or where you work or your personal contact details on FB or IG
Step 2: Never add colleagues or your boss to your social media accounts
Step 3: Set your FB or IG to private and only accept known and trusted accounts
Step 4: Minimize posts on political and social issues that might trigger people who will stab you in the back simply because they feel offended

[waffledoesstuff]

I heard someone in my community got doxxed. The doxxer found her information, came to her house, and broke in. God dammit, what the heck is wrong with humanity right now.

[greaseddude]

You're not anonymous with VPNs, but it does help you get safe from hackers

[desperadodeluxe]

Doxxing can go way beyond social media. Often being stalked in person. I had no reason to be doxxed I was literally just vulnerable.

[mrandersson]

Changing your behavior to avoid doxing harassment is not acceptable. The solution is to let everyone know this is not acceptable and that there will be consequences for those who harass people in this way as well.
As for exposing private information this is usually illegal. So making an internet private conversation public is illegal.
Moreover you can consider that the real name of a public post under a pseudonym is private information even if the post is not, therefore making it also illegal to expose the true identity of the author(s).
Unless of course the message or post is a threat, then it could be self defence/public service to dox.

[Michael-votk]

skip to about 3:00 for 'how to protect'

[geot]

The idea that zeroing in on info that's "already public" (but takes effort to find) is "legal" strikes me as dubious. This has always been an Internet privacy invasion. You used to have to drive and wait in lines at record buildings.

[jackcarraway]

The best way to avoid doxing is avoid using social media entirely or at least harden your accounts.

To put things in perspective, I know one girl who is a pretty radical leftist who made some very unflattering comments about religion, a protected group. I Googled her name and the very first result was her LinkedIn account, complete with her current employer.

[justadragonnamemarcus]

I can't believe that still doxx not considered as crime

[cancelled]

so helpful didn’t know what this was now i know ❤️

[nicatina]

I've been doxxed before so I deleted all of my social media and turn on VPN to keep myself safe.

[MelliaBoomBot]

mmm only learned about this 10 mins ago, still don;t know if I get it...that makes me feel OLD.

[SmogValley]

What I feel this video needs to address is people searching sites or sites that sell your personal information without your consent. So you can be as cryptic as possible, but if those sites tell what identity is linked to an account or email address or even home address you don't just need a VPN but you have to find a way to purge your info

[khlidcraft]

I almost got doxxed before, someone dm'd me in discord my IP address, then he started threatening me to leak it, I told him that I'm using a vpn and you don't have my real ip (while I actually wasn't using a vpn) and he fell for it.

[whatthefuckisthis]

For anyone who is wondering:
Getting ddosed is different from getting doxxed, it is often confused which is which.

[mtwgebg]

kindly suggest any metadata removal tool !!

[boraanna_]

i've got an example, which i don't know if it's considered doxxing or not. a person took a video of themselves being racist and people found out their other account on social media, messaged their school/workplace or families to bring awareness and to make the people do something about the behavior of the said person. because that doesn't really involve a malicious intent, right?

[cerdoscalvos]

I've only doxxed once in my entire life, it was a ped0phile who kept harassing my friend and I. I think there was a better way to solve that lol

[aryansingh]

I never made any FB or made any account on any platform using my number and if i made i didn't argued on other platforms except Twitter. Someone got my number easily while i didn't do anything so my public information could he gathered by someone

[thejensetterkive]

Can someone tell me what this area of computing is. The one with hacking, security and anything similar to it. I would like to dive more into it and do a course