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This is bold coming from someone who doxxes people publicly. https://hacked.wtf/2019/04/26/dear-brian-krebs-no-more-doxxi...
The pr0gramm (a kinda image board) members were upset and since "Krebs" is German for "cancer", they started donating to a German cancer charity, more than EUR 200k in total, to "cure Krebs".
I know some people who are on a similar list run by the far right in the UK. edited for grammar all happy now.
You shouldn't be able to make an anonymous phone call and have the police bust down someone else's door guns drawn.
An unverified phone call alone should not amount to probable cause. That's not civilization.
Edit: There seems to be some confusion below. I'm not excusing the police of their responsibility by any means. Its important to remember the vast majority of swatting incidents end without violence, thanks almost entirely to the professionalism of the men who have just kicked down a door (or chose not to kick down the door, but knock instead) and found out that the phone call they got about a guy in his living room butchering small children is actually just a dude playing video games or whatever.
Edit2: I'm a pretty libertarian fellow but if you are incapable of thinking of a scenario where you would want the police to kick in your door and storm your house with guns, then you either have no imagination, or you live in a magical fairy tale land and I'm super jealous.
I know some people who are on a similar list run by the far right in the UK. edited for grammar all happy now.
Also, a list in the US created to target the right/extremists: https://www.elon.edu/E-Net/Article/166381
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I'm going to interpret this as charitably as possible: Are you attempting to bring attention to the fact that doxxing is rarely prosecuted, even though it's illegal and there's boatloads of evidence that it is in fact a form of violence? This is the only way I can imagine this question being raised that doesn't assume you're trolling.
>Are you attempting to bring attention to the fact that doxxing is rarely prosecuted, even though it's illegal and there's boatloads of evidence that it is in fact a form of violence? We should really stop with the scope creep attempts around "violence".
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The heart of the problem is that SWAT-ing is possible. You shouldn't be able to make an anonymous phone call and have the police bust down someone else's door guns drawn. An unverified phone call alone should not amount to probable cause. That's not civilization.
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You post their home address. Their private phone number. And the same of their spouses. And their parents. And the address of the school their children visit. And the route they usually take to work. etc. Then the bad person hacks their icloud and dropbox and releases their private pictures and videos, the naughtier the better. And yes, all of that happened recently in Germany mostly to some prominent politicians, wh…
If that's the definition of "dox" you're using, that doesn't appear to be what Krebs did. He posted names, and a public LinkedIn profile.
Now, Krebs doxed people in the past who didn't want their true identities revealed. Often because those people were up to no good, but sometimes Krebs went a bit overboard in my opinion.
More in general, and I am not saying Krebs ever did this, there are valid reasons why people might not want their true identities widely revealed. Think whistleblowers, some critical journalists, etc.
A more general definition of doxing would be "publish personal information that the people to whom this information belongs did not give consent to publish". As such, I don't see doxing as generally evil, it depends on the kind of information and context. Out a criminal? OK. Out a journalist? Probably not OK.