Doxxing defense: Remove your personal info from data brokers

Post by peterwwillis » Thu, Nov 20, 2014, 5:23 PM UTC

Post by giarc » Thu, Nov 20, 2014, 5:27 PM UTC

subsection1h wrote: post #56

giarc wrote: post #42

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I know you can enter email addresses as x+y@example.com where x=your regular email and y=some word/phrase to indicate who might have sold your email. For example, if you register bill+NG@example.com with national geographic, and you find yourself getting to: bill+NG@example.com from spam, you know who sold your info. My question is, do you think companies know this trick and just remove the portion following the "+"?

> if you register bill+NG@email.com Please use the second level domain label example [1] when writing examples of email addresses. For all you know, you just posted someone's email address. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example.com

Post by doctorfoo » Thu, Nov 20, 2014, 5:29 PM UTC

snowwrestler wrote: post #57

doctorfoo wrote: post #15

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It's the bias in the media. GamerGate supporters are painted uniformly as misogynists. There is a legitimate argument about press ethics, freedom of speech, and whether appreciating an attractive body is the same as objectification. >justify some pretty terrible actions I'm asking that the terrible actions of BOTH sides are reported. There is an awful, hateful minority on both sides, but in the mainstream media, only…

> whether appreciating an attractive body is the same as objectification I know this is off-topic, but the statement above is literally objectification, because it refers to a body (which is an object) instead of a person.

Post by danielweber » Thu, Nov 20, 2014, 5:33 PM UTC

riquito wrote: post #50

giarc wrote: post #42

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I know you can enter email addresses as x+y@example.com where x=your regular email and y=some word/phrase to indicate who might have sold your email. For example, if you register bill+NG@example.com with national geographic, and you find yourself getting to: bill+NG@example.com from spam, you know who sold your info. My question is, do you think companies know this trick and just remove the portion following the "+"?

Spam companies knows it but don't really care I suppose, it's not their problem. Your problem is that if you forget the password you must remember if and how you personalized the e-mail address to reset it.

Post by niels_olson » Thu, Nov 20, 2014, 5:41 PM UTC

blauwbilgorgel wrote: post #3

Just because a data aggregation site does not show your data on the front-end, does not mean they deleted it from the back-end. So now you can charge 50$ for people to search in the "special" data pile, where people took the effort to remove it from the front-end. These data brokers crawl publicly available information. Telling them to remove your data, only slows down the doxxer, it does not stop them at all, since…