"Doxing" in 2025

[Buffalo Chicken Sandwich]

The citation of Shawn Phase was both needed and welcomed. Y'all often do get the deets wrong.

 

[Maeis]

This is optics related, not worrying about being criminally prosecuted (outside of the UK anyways).

But Null's example was killing in self-defense → "I murdered him" that's admitting that you wanted to kill them. So admitting that you doxxed him therefore means admitting you wanted to dox, which is apparently a crime? Sorry if this is a waste of time.

 

[Dyn]

Just say "Hey look I found out who this guy is and pictures of his house".

 

[Devious Dave]

I just phonebooked @Sicko Hunter

 

[Alabaster Disaster]

Revealing Addresses and Public Evidentiary Details. A bit cumbersome but we could make it an acronym. Would definitely eliminate all association with the crime of doxing.

 

[Balr0g]

Instead of "doxxing" we say "docing" (as in documenting) or investigating. Or even better call it "transitioning" We transitioned the person from "unknown" to kiwifarm entry

 

[Sperghetti]

I like "phonebooking", if only to serve as a reminder that shit like legal names and addresses are technically public information.

 

[Dr. Ricearoni]

I've got an idea. Under HIPAA law, information that is not legal to share is labeled "PHI", short for "Protected Health Information."
We could ape on that by referring to the old definition of a dox as something like "PAI" (publicly available information) or "PIE" (public information exposed or something to that effect) and we can refer to it as Paing or Pieing, because lolcows are the clowns of the internet.

 

[Nero Fiddled]

Revelation Accident?

 

[Quijibo69]

We should make it the most retarded word in the human language. Then when people catch on.. profit.

 

[Stinkyboy]

Elliot William Fong is a criminal. It would be a shame if this public information was made public.

 

[Not a bee]

Whatever the one trannies use so they have to own up to it

 

[Jonkinator]

Infodump / Infodumping makes sense to me. Infodump could mean any type of information not just personal details (addresses, emails, full names, etc) and is used in many different ways online for sharing information on a topic (sharing links, screenshots, audio clips, etc).

 

[Vecr]

I've got an idea. Under HIPAA law, information that is not legal to share is labeled "PHI", short for "Protected Health Information."
We could ape on that by referring to the old definition of a dox as something like "PAI" (publicly available information) or "PIE" (public information exposed or something to that effect) and we can refer to it as Paing or Pieing, because lolcows are the clowns of the internet.

Pieing could be good for posting the information. I skiptraced her then pied her in the new WIP OP.

 

[Master Balayage Autist]

all of those terms are gay and retarded also you're fat.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Might as well call it Niggerfaggoting so journos wouldn't be able to use the word

 

[Clyde Cash's Left Teste]

I kinda like Unmasking. It both has a cornness to it but also describes what the farms does best. The moral of the Kiwi Farms is don't post all your info onto the Goddamn internet.

 

[GosuGopher]

Josh, I'd rather you just alias the terms doxing, doxed, dox, etc. on KF if you're forced to.

Part of that is because I think phonebooking is a clumsy word, and most of the other suggested alternatives lack utility in sentences. Though honestly, part of it is that I'm not going to change a common word I use everywhere else just for this website. Doxing is in the public lexicon with two meanings, and to avoid using it now for PR optics reasons is stupid.

 

[Vesperus]

Set up a filter to replace "dox" with "unmask" to piss off the troons. But do it on the display side so it can easily be undone/changed later when this either all blows over or the troons move on to something else.

 

[Null]

does that mean you really aren't free to tell someone in call of duty to kill themselves, while egging them on to do it eventually becomes a crime?

this is already the case.