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Humans, bots and dogs on Lemmy, why do you dox yourself by giving such specific details about yourself? (reddthat.com)

submitted 1 week ago by shamrockpreacher5@reddthat.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Just curious.

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[–] ajdndkk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

I change my identities often. So if one identity is doxed it does not matter since I probably just used it for some not important debates. This makes them harder to link them sincr no identity has enough details to fully dox me and get linked with other identities.

This is true however only for being doxed by general public. Police however could easily dox me by my IP without me giving out anything.

For high risk stuff I use tor and single use identities.