Comment by KPGv2
6 hours ago
"Doxxing" is from the 90s and was used to describe a hacker unmasking another hacker so they could be arrested. That's almost exactly the same usage as here.
6 hours ago
"Doxxing" is from the 90s and was used to describe a hacker unmasking another hacker so they could be arrested. That's almost exactly the same usage as here.
Semantic shift happens over time. A 2026 article is supposed to communicate to 2026, not 1996, readers.
Germany is a bit backwards.
Wut? The headline is from Krebs on Security, not from the German authorities.
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I can't find it in the jargon file: http://catb.org/jargon/html/D.html
(someone really needs to make a new jargon file, if not out of practicality then for archival reasons)
It comes from leetspeak. Identity documents -> docs -> dox