Well, there wasn’t a column in the white pages for ‘Seal Abuser’
Comment on WA man accused of hurling rock at Hawaiian monk seal has been doxxed, lawyer says
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I’ll never understand how being doxxed became a thing when 20 years ago people would regularly have access to books that held the name, phone number, and address of damn near every person in their area.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
DrMartinu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
I think the original Terminator movie did a good job illustrating how phone books could still be pretty unreliable
whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Sarah?
Soulphite@reddthat.com 4 days ago
While people’s information (in the US) is considered public information, doxxing is the act to distribute a specific targets information maliciously with the intent to harass or cause harm to them… their information was public but someone gave it out with that intent to a large group of people who’d otherwise not bother going through the trouble of obtaining the information. Now they have it readily available, it’s and easy target for the victim.