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Personal Information Security - Best practices to avoiding doxxing?

Discussion in 'Suggestions & Bugs' started by tehelgee, Apr 18, 2017.

  1. TheNorthman

    TheNorthman Making the rounds.

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    I wonder if people would want a receive-only email service that didn't log.
     
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  2. alethiophile

    alethiophile Shadowed Philosopher Administrator

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    That's basically what Mailinator does. With the twist of the no-auth model, but that's workaroundable.
     
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  3. TheNorthman

    TheNorthman Making the rounds.

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    Yeah it can be worked around, I just meant if you gave it auth so people could safely recover passwords. xD
     
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  4. Facepalmist

    Facepalmist Well, that happened...

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    (Posting partly just to see if I can, because server errors have been cropping up over the past couple hours...)

    Perhaps the most practical defence against doxxing I've come across goes back to QQ's Rule One. Don't be an argumentative dick, don't gratuitously shit-stir, and a lot of the people who would go to the effort of doxxing you just... well, can't be bothered. Why would they go after you? Either they like/don't mind you, or they just don't care - so why go to the effort?

    On the conservation of user-detail: one relatively easy area for writers to slip up in is GoogleDocs, where edits and suggestions are quite often tagged with RL names or intentionally recognisable handles (particularly where a pre-existing Gmail account is also used for other things such as official correspondence with businesses). Certainly I've had no choice but to gather the RL names of several people just to track who's done what edit in whatever G-doc - which can in itself count as a 'big slip-up', particularly where they use the same avatar on other sites...
     
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