"Doxing" in 2025

[Haramburger]

Sorry Null, but it feels incredibly tone deaf to self-censor over the word "dox" when there's threads over here where posters replace every single comma, quotation marks, and dot with 'niggerfaggot'.
And to be honest niggerfaggot I do think that the word niggerfaggot infograb niggerfaggot could be a feasible alternative for doxing in case things get worse niggerfaggot

This may come as a surprise, but there are other things you shouldn't say in this community other than "dox." One good example is "that six-year old is sexy" or "I nutted in my golden retriever and then clubbed a macaque to death for laughs." Say either in the wrong context and without quotations and see what happens.

 

[Whiskey]

As gay as the term "unmasking" is, we might as well use their own language against them.

Worked so well with " actually it's about ethics in game journalism "

 

[Epic Fail Man]

does the term doXXing work?

 

[Patrick Bait-man]

I second "dossier." Makes my threads sound more cool.

Spoiler

Or phonebook, that works too.

 

[lIllllIiiiiLLLLiiiiIIIIll]

I do enjoy that null just made a thread instead of a poll so we mostly argue instead of voting and getting on the same page. Maybe the vote is for another thread. Democracy never works except on KWF, where the poll is actually pretty damn clear usually.

 

[Rungle]

My suggestion is docing. As in doc(ument)ing. It's close to doxxing, but distinct.

docing reminds me of that other thing.
you know
what pilots do.

 

[Orange Rhymer]

War has changed.​

It's no longer about nations, ideologies, or ethnicity. It's an endless series of proxy battles, fought by mercenaries and machines.​

War and it's consumption of life has become a well-oiled machine.​

War has changed.​

ID-tagged soldiers carry ID-tagged weapons, use ID-tagged gear. Nanomachines inside their bodies enhance and regulate their abilities.​

Genetic control, information control, emotion control, battlefield control…everything is monitored and kept under control.​

War…has changed.​

The age of deterrence has become the age of control, all in the name of averting catastrophe from weapons of mass destruction, and he who controls the battlefield, controls history.​

War…has changed.​

When the battlefield is under total control, war becomes routine.​

Wrong stalker child

 

[Ace888Ace]

The idea of attempting to improve the optics of this website as a whole is a fool's errand anyway. Fundamentally, the overall sentiment of this website will always be at odds with the overall normie zeitgeist.

The absolute best we can hope for is the continued maintenance of our existence, unmolested, and from the sounds of it that's enough of a battle on its own without trying to make the place look good.

 

[NoddingOut]

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/mad-at-the-internet.49299/post-20234405

Here was my insomnia take in another thread


From the available options, phonebooking and sunshining

>We end up with that gay niggas shine or was that a gayop? / Shine some light on that zesty nigga / we did it reddit! Finally that POC uphill gardener got sunshined

Or


>That zoosadist got phonebooked thank god / Can someone finally drop the 'book on that prick, somebody knows and is holding out.

A portamento combo of any above?
Phoneshining
Phoboxing

Deets is okay but you can't really say deeted, or can you? It is kinda funny.

The issue with this is that if doxing has a legal definition apply, jewsh is a legal resident in the US now who is subject to getting fucked with so maybe a change is needed for defensive purposes

The idea of attempting to improve the optics of this website as a whole is a fool's errand anyway. Fundamentally, the overall sentiment of this website will always be at odds with the overall normie zeitgeist.

 

[ForTheHoard]

Is this an inverted April Fools? 1-4 instead of 4-1? I heard the definition of "woman" changed, too.

 

[NIA-DOA 2.0]

I say "sunshining".

It makes us sound like jolly, Victorian era Englishmen.

 

[Uncle Ted's Cabin]

I agree, let's pronounce it dossing.

This is not a bad idea. doss can be short for dossier, which retains the meaning that it's supposed to convey and it doesn't sound terrible when you read it in a sentence.

 

[Edict of Expulsion]

I thought we had settled on "skeeting."

Yes. Skeeting.

Or to be as judaically autistic as possible, give separate definitions to doxing and doxxing, with one “x” or two.

Seriously though sunshining is nice.

 

[Kwopsie Peepsie]

Here's a vote for "infodump" or "infodumping", sounds pretty neutral. You could always append "...of publicly known information and/or data" to whatever term you want to use, i.e., "Flutter's infodump of publicly known information does not include any clear high resolution photos of her face."

 

[Betonhaus]

Or we could just have a footnote on the main page that contains the definition of doxing that we use

 

[Bogliacci]

Phonebooking

 

[Orange Rhymer]

I say "sunshining".

It makes a sound like jolly, Victorian era Englishmen.

That's a grade school term for exposing your genitals (opposite of mooning).

 

[Rain Team Pepe]

I'm happy to call it anything to keep the forum out of trouble.
I'd vote for my favorite if there was a poll in this thread.

 

[Drip Torch]

Gimme the deets!

 

[dick brain]

I want to summarize some of the points made thusfar while I take a shit:

• The term "doxing" can now mean the perfectly legal practice of gathering information through publicly available sources (OSINT), OR using that information to harass or otherwise target an individual
• The point of changing the language we use here is, in the short term, to avoid making statements about the former practice that could be -- intentionally or unintentionally -- misconstrued as admissions of the latter practice
• In the context of this short term problem, it does not matter what language we use, so long as it isn't "dox".
• However, the short term problem aside, regardless of what unique language we adopt, it is likely to simply become another shorthand for the same practice, and thus subject to the same confusion and deliberate misrepresentation. That is to say, in the context of this longer term problem, it does not matter what language we use, it will come to mean the same thing and we'll end up back in this situation again as laws continue to get more draconian.
• The caveat to this is that, for this practice to be vilified, it needs to be differentiated from other instances of investigative journalism. By using a unique term, such as doxing or phonebooking or infodropping, we distinguish the investigative journalism done here from the exact same practices employed elsewhere by other people against other people. In essence, by calling what we do here something special, we are doing our opposition's work for them, by giving them a buzzword to vilify.
• It is for this reason that I am personally reticent to use ANY unique terminology -- especially OSINT -- for what we do here, and why I am personally arguing that we refrain from distinguishing our investigative journalism from the opposition's investigative journalism. If they want to argue that it's bad when we do it but good when they do it, force them to make a distinction, don't make it easier for them. Don't give legislators a unique term to conflate with harassment; if they want to redefine the boundaries between harassment and journalism, force them to argue that in plain English.