alt Hacker NewsHow is "this is the name of the formerly anonymous extortionist" doxxing?
Unless there's something not covered in the article, his current address, family members, phone, etc were not listed. That's not doxxing; that's "here's a guy were want to arrest."
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randomNumber7 • yesterday at 7:09 PM
That wouldn't sound cool. Especially as noone actually gives a fuck about what germany wants.
It seems to me that the meaning of the word "doxxing" has slowly drifted to mean "revealing information about somebody without their consent", be it by state actor, a company or an individual.
BTW, what do you think will happen when people find out that their neighbor is secretly a pretty wealthy criminal? Attempts of theft, robbery and extortion have happened in the wake of such announcements.
There was even a case where somebody attempted to impersonate an intelligence officer and try to force a recently doxxed cyber criminal to bribe them.