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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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I'm getting doxxed by a troll (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I got doxxed by a troll on a forum , the troll posted my real full name and school including my grade level , pics of a Facebook account which the troll thinks it's me but isn't because I don't have any mainstream socials. The troll keeps pasting my name and pics from the Facebook profile everywhere on the forum, what do I do ???

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I don't mean to be a dick, but if a troll is able to pass your information out, you need to adhere to better personal information security practices.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Helpful...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not helpful for the current predicament, but good general advice for the future.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Well, it might be helpful in the current predicament. Going after the perp, without taking care of the vulnerabilities might make them take a real interest and get more data out. So make sure it's all off the grid.

Make sure it's also deleted from the Internet archive. From search engines and so on.

We got police scammed for a while because my streaming wife's contact was in some obscure 15-year-old backup of her first website on the internet archive. Before we used a service for that stuff. It had been offline for a decade already, so nobody even thought about it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Shit I ain't a saint, we all can better about it. My point is that if you wanna go in the offensive online, be sure it can't bite you in the ass, at least in this regard.