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Re How 'Doxxing' Became a Mainstream Tool in the Culture Wars
From: "Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 11:57:51 -0400
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From: Tilghman Lesher <tilghman () meg abyt es> Date: August 31, 2017 at 10:49:21 AM EDT To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: Re: [IP] Re How 'Doxxing' Became a Mainstream Tool in the Culture Wars Where doxxing becomes dangerous is with the practice of "swatting" -- calling in an emergency, such as a kidnapping or a domestic dispute involving a firearm, for the victim's address, which sometimes results in the victim of the "swatting" killed by police. The otherwise innocuous posting of a private address can thus become deadly.On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 7:49 AM, Dave Farber <farber () gmail com> wrote: Begin forwarded message:From: "Wendy M. Grossman" <wendyg () pelicancrossing net> Date: August 31, 2017 at 8:46:16 AM EDT To: dave () farber net Subject: Re: [IP] How 'Doxxing' Became a Mainstream Tool in the Culture Wars For IP if you wish: It has long seemed to me that doxxing is merely the democratization of behavior that has for decades been a staple of the British tabloids. wgOn 08/31/2017 01:39 PM, Dave Farber wrote: Begin forwarded message:*From:* Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com <mailto:dewayne () warpspeed com>> *Date:* August 31, 2017 at 8:28:46 AM EDT *To:* Multiple recipients of Dewayne-Net <dewayne-net () warpspeed com <mailto:dewayne-net () warpspeed com>> *Subject:* *[Dewayne-Net] How 'Doxxing' Became a Mainstream Tool in the Culture Wars* *Reply-To:* dewayne-net () warpspeed com <mailto:dewayne-net () warpspeed com> How ‘Doxxing’ Became a Mainstream Tool in the Culture Wars By NELLIE BOWLES Aug 30 2017 <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/30/technology/doxxing-protests.html> SAN FRANCISCO — Riding a motorized pony and strumming a cigar box ukulele, Dana Cory led a singalong to the tune of “If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands.” “You’re a Nazi and you’re fired, it’s your fault,” she sang. “You were spotted in a mob, now you lost your freaking job. You’re a Nazi and you’re fired, it’s your fault.” “All together now!” Ms. Cory, 48, shouted to a cheering crowd in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood on Saturday. They were protesting a rally planned by far-right organizers about a mile away. “Dox a Nazi all day, every day,” she said. Online vigilantism has been around since the early days of the internet. So has “doxxing” — originally a slang term among hackers for obtaining and posting private documents about an individual, usually a rival or enemy. To hackers, who prized their anonymity, it was considered a cruel attack. But doxxing has emerged from subculture websites like 4Chan and Reddit to become something of a mainstream phenomenon since a white supremacist march on Charlottesville, Va., earlier this month. “Originally it was little black-hat hacker crews who were at war with each other — they would take docs, like documents, from a competing group and then claim they had ‘dox’ on them,” said Gabriella Coleman, a professor at McGill University who wrote a book about the hacker vigilante group Anonymous. “There was this idea that you were veiled and then uncovered.” Now the online hunt to reveal extremists has raised concerns about unintended consequences, or even collateral damage. A few individuals have been misidentifiedin recent weeks, including a professor from Arkansas who was wrongly accused of participating in the neo-Nazi march. And some worry that the stigma of being outed as a political extremist can only reinforce that behavior in people who could still be talked out of it. Doxxing was on the minds of a number of protesters on the streets of San Francisco on Saturday. In the Castro and Mission neighborhoods and Alamo Square, the home of the famous row of houses known as the Painted Ladies, thousands participated in counter-demonstrations to the right-wing rally. There was the energy of a street party — children and dogs joined in, protesters shared baked goods, and the bars nearby were full. Marla Wilson, 35, of San Francisco, said she was appalled when she saw white supremacists marching so brazenly in Charlottesville. Doxxing, she believed, was an effective way to make people think twice about being so bold with their racism. “Some of what is happening now will make these white supremacists realize why their grandparents wore hoods,” Ms. Wilson said. “At least then there was shame.” The ethics — and even the definition — of doxxing is murky. It is the dissemination of often publicly available information. And, some at the protest asked, are you really doxxing a person if he or she is marching on a public street, face revealed and apparently proud? It is not as though they are hiding their identities. [snip] Dewayne-Net RSS Feed: http://dewaynenet.wordpress.com/feed/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/wa8dzpArchives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/9858326-8d1a63ed> | Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your Subscription | Unsubscribe Now <https://www.listbox.com/unsubscribe/?&&post_id=20170831083948:77A0CD04-8E49-11E7-AB24-FBD3EB3190A2> [Powered by Listbox] <http://www.listbox.com>-- www.pelicancrossing.net <- all about me Twitter: @wendygArchives | Modify Your Subscription | Unsubscribe Now-- Tilghman
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