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Common Risks · Doxxing

Doxxing checklist

Who leads Whoever looks after digital security Name

Use it when

a publication, a protest or a court case is coming up, or a year has passed since you last searched.

Search for yourselves first

Start with the organisation: team page, reports, photos, the website’s registration.
Each person searches for themselves, in private.
Search the way an attacker would: a private window, your name in quotes, several engines.
Check for leaked details on Have I Been Pwned.
Act at once on a home address, or a link between a pseudonym and a real person.

Make less of it findable

Personal profiles private, and old accounts closed.
Home addresses and phone numbers removed from search where you can.
Photos checked for street signs and house numbers, with location off.
The website registered in the organisation’s name, owner details private.

Agree now

Where someone could stay if their address were published, and who checks in.

Notes

Take care: The searching takes a toll. Take breaks, share the work and start with what matters most.

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