kgujdtjofan hour ago
This whole concept of “doxxing” has spun way out of control.
Every house in the country used to get a giant paperback book every year with the name, address, and telephone number of everyone that lived in the community. This information has never been considered secret.
Doxxing specifically refers to unmasking a pseudonym. That’s it. If there’s no pseudonym, it’s not doxxing.
paulddraper3 minutes ago
> Every house in the country used to get a giant paperback book every year
If you did that in Europe you'd get fined 4% of annual turnover.
Wild how much basic practices have changed in 2 decades.
MadrasTh0rn44 minutes ago
The resources needed to harass and target people from an address book has been reduced significantly since phone books.
Society has really not adapted well to this.
DANmode31 minutes ago
Disagree.
The ways people have opened themselves to harassment and targeting have been increased significantly since phone books.
People were not hard to target and harass in those days.
macintux3 minutes ago
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gmercan hour ago
You could not do anything with that information nor did you know anything or could you reasonably find out anything about 99% of names in the book without effort, so this is just disingenous
hexapus3 hours ago
The current regime decided lawlessness was beneficial to them. Cuts both ways. I suppose people should consider carefully whether signing bonuses and the chance to abuse marginalised people with impunity is worth it. I'm fine with people making it riskier to throw in with corrupt authoritarians for personal benefit.
reallydoingthis2 hours ago
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ljf5 hours ago
Alternative discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50280864
fn-mote3 hours ago
142 comments right now. Go there instead.
NDlurker4 hours ago
I don't know if every state is like this, but in my state, all state employee salaries are public information that anyone can look up. Why should federal employees have their information hidden? They're supposed to work for us.
SoftTalkeran hour ago
Same where I am.
cdrnsf3 hours ago
This calls for the world’s tiniest violin.
iAMkenough5 hours ago
If those employees didn't do anything wrong, they have nothing to worry about.
reallydoingthis2 hours ago
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iAMkenough2 hours ago
Why would I want them to worry? Are you insinuating they did something wrong?
aliasxneo4 hours ago
I'm sure this line works well with doxx'ing victims.
iAMkenough4 hours ago
Public servants? It’s the line the government uses to justify dragnet mass surveillance.
No harm in knowing who is working for you.
aliasxneo4 hours ago
> It’s the line the government uses to justify dragnet mass surveillance.
Agreed. But I don't see how that justifies your original comment.
bobthepanda3 hours ago
The original comment is clearly an expression of schadenfreude.
dpkirchner4 hours ago
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parthdesai4 hours ago
Do those doxxed victims have significant power over an average person?
With great power comes greater responsibilities
DeluluDon4 hours ago
Yeah Spiderman is such an influence over real life.
aliasxneo3 hours ago
The whole epitome of this thread is that my enemies got doxx'd and so now I shall jump through dozens of logical hoops in order to justify it.
Oh, also, if you're not happy with this, you obviously must agree with everything they are doing.
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aliasxneo4 hours ago
> If those employees didn't do anything wrong, they have nothing to worry about.
That's the line I responded to, in case you didn't read it.
parthdesai3 hours ago
That is the line govt uses/used to justify mass surveillance. OP is just flipping the table?