The Doxxing Playbook

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 explains the attacker workflow so you can reduce your exposure. 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