This. So many people overshare on social media, and not just their intimate details. So many, often without realizing, share just enough details to make it possible for anyone with the time and patience to dox them which leads them to believe they are being targeted when the truth is their own poor opsec/infosec made it easier for people to learn more about them than desired or expected.
It's also funny how some people lose their jobs over what they post on social media whereas peole such as LFJ get hired by thier asspatteing cronies with adequate resources and the ability to look the other way when they act unprofessionally online. LFJ certainly has the privilege she and her ilk screech so loudly about towards others.
Totally agree on that.
People overshare at the point of keeping their phone's geotags on all the time, so you can always see where they are. And at the same time they share quotes about Orwell's 1984 to appear smart, lol.
Because of this oversharing, doxxing people has become trivial. Back 20 years ago, doxxing someone needed some serious detective work, including tracing IPs to see the person's approximate location, etc. Today, all it takes is just enough patience, a Facebook and Twitter account, and Google: you find everything on the table. And the most difficult ones are dots that don't take too much effort to be connected.
I highly doubt that what happens to them can be considered doxxing, too: according to Cambridge Dictionary, doxxing means "to publish private information about someone on the internet, without their permission and in a way that reveals their name, where they live, etc.:"
To publish private information on the internet means that the info were NOT on the internet, I got them by offline means (i.e. by knowing that person IRL), and I posted them somewhere. But if the info were already on the internet, can it be considered doxxing, if even the average joe can get them with minimum effort?
www.dw.com
