The Doxxing Playbook
Privacy · 5 Chapters · From a Username to Your Front Door
Incoming transmission
Doxxing — from "dropping dox," documents — is the act of researching and publicly publishing private information about a person. It can start with nothing but a username and end with your home address, employer, family members' names, and photos of your house, all posted publicly, all used to coordinate harassment.
A person was doxxed after a Twitter argument. Within 48 hours, strangers were calling her workplace. She hadn't done anything extraordinary — she'd argued with the wrong person in the wrong corner of the internet.
This manual is the attacker's playbook. The OSINT chain that converts a username to a front door. The coordinated harassment model that turns one post into hundreds of simultaneous attacks. The documented cases — including one that ended with an innocent man shot dead by police who were responding to a call about him that was entirely fabricated.
You need to understand how the attack works before you can shrink your surface area against it. 5 chapters. Direct. No jargon.
— Commander Shepard
