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And not all contributors would plug their blogs in a thread asking them to do so. Exactly. On a pseudanonymous forum that’s as good as asking people to doxx th

And not all contributors would plug their blogs in a thread asking them to do so. Exactly. On a pseudanonymous forum that’s as good as asking people to doxx themselves!

bovermyer 7y ago
There is a difference between acknowledging publicly who you are and doxxing, which I consider to be publicly releasing your phone number and physical address (at least).
- DoreenMichele 7y ago
  If you participate under a handle here and use your real name on your blog, it may effectively amount to the same thing. People can have a variety of personal concerns, from a nutcase stalker ex to "I work for BigCo and want to spout off online without getting fired" to "I happen to have some bizarrely unique name, so using my real name anywhere amounts to doxxing myself." Lots of people on HN use a throwaway email just for HN and don't want general HN readership to know much about their lives. People use a wide variety of approaches to having an online life while looking out for their own specific privacy concerns. Please note that most people with privacy concerns will not chime in to this discussion to explain to you why they make the specific choices they make as that would tend to be counterproductive and undermine their goals of protecting their privacy.
- jrockway 7y ago
  Linking to your website has this effect. For example, one of the few pieces of information on my website is my amateur radio callsign. You can take that to the FCC's helpful database and then get my home address. I have it there because I think crime is low enough that it's worth having a Google result for "who is that KD2DTW guy that I just heard?"
- ryanlol 7y ago
  >doxxing Where does this strange typo come from?
  - eitland 7y ago
    From the same place as phising, leet etc.
    - ryanlol 7y ago
      >phising >leet one of these is not like the other
  - NikolaeVarius 7y ago
    > "Doxing" is a neologism that has evolved over its brief history. It comes from a spelling alteration of the abbreviation "docs" (for "documents") and refers to "compiling and releasing a dossier of personal information on someone".[9] Essentially, doxing is revealing and publicizing records of an individual, which were previously private or difficult to obtain. The term dox derives from the slang "dropping dox" which, according to Wired writer Mat Honan, was "an old-school revenge tactic that emerged from hacker culture in 1990s". Hackers operating outside the law in that era used the breach of an opponent's anonymity as a means to expose opponents to harassment or legal repercussions.[9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxing
    - ryanlol 7y ago
      Doxing, not “doxxing”.
TeMPOraL 7y ago
Or maybe they've seen the thread and decided not to participate. For instance myself - my blog is nothing special, so I didn't include it, even though it's linked in my bio.

And not all contributors would plug their blogs in a thread asking them to do so. Exactly. On a pseudanonymous forum that’s as good as asking people to doxx themselves!

bovermyer 7y ago

There is a difference between acknowledging publicly who you are and doxxing, which I consider to be publicly releasing your phone number and physical address (at least).

DoreenMichele 7y ago
If you participate under a handle here and use your real name on your blog, it may effectively amount to the same thing. People can have a variety of personal concerns, from a nutcase stalker ex to "I work for BigCo and want to spout off online without getting fired" to "I happen to have some bizarrely unique name, so using my real name anywhere amounts to doxxing myself." Lots of people on HN use a throwaway email just for HN and don't want general HN readership to know much about their lives. People use a wide variety of approaches to having an online life while looking out for their own specific privacy concerns. Please note that most people with privacy concerns will not chime in to this discussion to explain to you why they make the specific choices they make as that would tend to be counterproductive and undermine their goals of protecting their privacy.
jrockway 7y ago
Linking to your website has this effect. For example, one of the few pieces of information on my website is my amateur radio callsign. You can take that to the FCC's helpful database and then get my home address. I have it there because I think crime is low enough that it's worth having a Google result for "who is that KD2DTW guy that I just heard?"
ryanlol 7y ago
>doxxing Where does this strange typo come from?
- eitland 7y ago
  From the same place as phising, leet etc.
  - ryanlol 7y ago
    >phising >leet one of these is not like the other
- NikolaeVarius 7y ago
  > "Doxing" is a neologism that has evolved over its brief history. It comes from a spelling alteration of the abbreviation "docs" (for "documents") and refers to "compiling and releasing a dossier of personal information on someone".[9] Essentially, doxing is revealing and publicizing records of an individual, which were previously private or difficult to obtain. The term dox derives from the slang "dropping dox" which, according to Wired writer Mat Honan, was "an old-school revenge tactic that emerged from hacker culture in 1990s". Hackers operating outside the law in that era used the breach of an opponent's anonymity as a means to expose opponents to harassment or legal repercussions.[9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxing
  - ryanlol 7y ago
    Doxing, not “doxxing”.

TeMPOraL 7y ago

Or maybe they've seen the thread and decided not to participate. For instance myself - my blog is nothing special, so I didn't include it, even though it's linked in my bio.