[HN Gopher] Doxcare: Prevention and aftercare for those targeted...
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Doxcare: Prevention and aftercare for those targeted by doxxing
(2020)
Author : acc_vector
Score : 8 points
Date : 2022-01-17 21:40 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (crimethinc.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (crimethinc.com)
| gregjor wrote:
| How did we survive decades of phone books and directory
| assistance, when anyone could get an address and phone number for
| free?
| octoberfranklin wrote:
| Computers were expensive and not universally interconnected.
| core-utility wrote:
| While I applaud what this article is trying to do, the reality of
| it is that unless you're spending a large amount of time and
| money to remain anonymous, _some_ portion of your information
| gets leaked online eventually and easily. It is a constant never-
| ending effort leading to (but not ending with) not having Amazon
| packages come to your house in your true name, registering your
| mortgage, utilities, and internet in other name(s) or businesses
| (which is no simple feat in itself), and risking all that work
| getting lost because you slipped once and updated your credit
| card address.
|
| The data removal services/sites may give temporary relief once,
| but the next time something flags an upload or update again
| you're right back to where you started. Michael Bazzell [1] has
| deep knowledge of what it takes and has published books on it,
| and it gets harder and more disrupting as time goes on, to where
| unless you're hiding from a known target or stalker it is almost
| not worth it.
|
| [1]: https://inteltechniques.com/
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