Submission + - Ask Slashdot: How do I recover from doxxing?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 19, 2015 @04:09PM

An anonymous reader writes: I've been doxxed on a popular forum, by one of the moderators no less. The forum owner doesn't care, the hosting company doesn't care. I'm getting bombarded by email and social media, even via GitHub. How does a person recover from this? I don't want to create a whole new identity or shut down all my web sites, social media etc. Can't really change my real name either, at least not without an incredible amount of hassle. The police don't care, and since the forum owner is on the other side of the world it's unlikely there could be any legal consequences, and even if they were they would probably only draw more attention to me. I've tried to clean up Google's search results about me. How do I fix this? What does a fix even look like?

Comment band name (Score 1) 372

by dirvish on Monday August 04, 2008 @02:26PM (#24470381) Attached to: Gravity Tractor Could Deflect Asteroids

"Gravity Tractor" would be a great band name.

1300 Unopened Fry's Rebate Forms Found In Dumpster 433

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 06, 2007 @05:22PM from the put-it-in-the-circular-file dept.

blackmonday writes "The Consumerist is reporting a find of 1,300 unopened rebate submissions in a dumpster belonging to Vastech, a rebate processor hired by Fry's Electronics. Vastech's management blames it on a bad employee."

DHS Ends Data-Mining Program 75

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 06, 2007 @04:31PM from the and-i-have-a-bridge-to-sell-you dept.

ExE122 writes "The Department of Homeland Security has "scrapped an ambitious anti-terrorism data-mining tool." The tool, called ADVISE, was being tested with live data rather than test data without having proper security in place. This program had already been under criticism by privacy advocates and members of Congress. However, according to the article, a DHS spokesman assures that the program will be restarted once the security and cost are re-evaluated."

Journal Journal: foundnews.com

Journal by dirvish on Tuesday March 22, 2005 @09:49PM

Found News Network

Comment Re:What about.. (Score 1) 656

by antispamist on Saturday May 01, 2004 @01:15AM (#9025894) Attached to: Favorite Stress Reliever?

Hell yeah. I was looking for that option to. ...

Don't know about all night but how about a quickie between fragging sessions :)

Feel me?

Journal Journal: PageRank and me...

Journal by antispamist on Saturday February 14, 2004 @04:17AM

I'm kinda new to the pagerank game but i've been trying to better my ranking of my page.

I know there are a lot of factors but, being rather new, I don't know very much about it all. Have any input/suggestions?

The page(s) in question are: http://blog.sufferingfools.net/

Comment Re:No source code - OPENWRT (Score 1) 329

by Natalie's Hot Grits on Sunday February 08, 2004 @06:01PM (#8220730) Attached to: Creating A Super-Router (For Free)

There is nothing stopping you legally from working and distributing this project. The only licensing problems I can see is that linksys might try to sue you for distributing their binary-only driver. I have not read the license terms of that drivers, so I do not know if they allow re-distribution of it or not.

Worst case scenerio (for sourceforge), ship the sources without the binary driver. If you decide to not go with sourceforge, there is NOTHING IN THE GPL which REQUIRES you to distribute sources to linux kernel drivers that you distribute with your distribution. There are MANY linux distributions out there that distribute linux binary drivers without source. For instance, any distro which ships nvidia drivers (which is practically ALL of them). This is not a violation of the GPL, as it is legal for you to ship packages with seperate binary files provided they are not derrived from the GPL works. (which they are not.)

Anybody telling you otherwise has no idea what they are talking about. This has NOTHING to do with the GPL or copyright law, and EVERYTHING to do with GPL zealots who want free wireless drivers. I say to those people: if you want it, write it yourself or petition the copyright owner to release his sources.

Comment Woo... (Score 1) 11

by chrisos on Monday January 05, 2004 @11:53AM (#7881250) Attached to: Mmm... This Port is quite good. Quite.

Woo!

Journal Journal: Shit day, what about you?

Journal by chrisos on Thursday March 27, 2003 @03:48PM

Just lost my job. Bugger.

We were expecting the news today, one by one each of the staff that where to be made redundant were called to a meeting room to be told.

As a contractor, I was expecting to lose my job, then the news comes around at 4ish, that everyone still standing is safe.

Journal Journal: useless...

Journal by antispamist on Tuesday March 04, 2003 @09:12PM

Ahh..the power of slashdot.

side note: my first story submission was rejected! :(

Journal Journal: So here I am... 1

Journal by chrisos on Thursday January 30, 2003 @07:05PM

So here I am, I can't metamoderate, as the Perl script seems to be missing, so I start doing some investigating...
So what do I find?
Well it would seem that I'm one of the good guys, I finally have good Karma :)
Only another year or two and I may have Excellent Karma!
Then I find out you can be mailed if a friend has updated their journal, so I thought, what the hell, if anyone is listening...
Hear me roar :)
Righto, I'm off to see

Comment Howabout legislation? (Score 1) 456

by vladedivac on Tuesday July 02, 2002 @01:53PM (#3808742) Attached to: Anti-Spammers Wage E-War

It may be difficult for the states to do anything about finding people, but it could work. I live in Indiana, and recently a law came into effect that instituted a "No Call" list for telemarketers. The program is voluntary, so you have to call to get on the list by a certain deadline (every six months or so), but once on the list, it becomes illegal for telemarketers to call. At that point, the state has a legal recoures against violators. Just a thought. ~Vlade

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