[Ads-l] "Doxing": new to me, though

Mon Jan 26 09:17:40 UTC 2015

Ben: Here is the verb form "doxed" in a tweet on May 30, 2009. (Two
earlier instances of "doxed" appear to be semantically unrelated)

https://twitter.com/mignews/status/1967899512

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MIGNEWS @mignews

SONYFANBOY3000 DOXED RE Reuploaded: SONYFANBOY3000 DOXED RE Reuploaded
YOU ARE THE IN-TER-NET FA-IL-U-RE From:.. http://tinyurl.com/m6ujw7

12:24 AM - 30 May 2009
[End excerpt]

Note: Following links can be dangerous (though the links in these
tweets are old).

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 2:55 AM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 1:25 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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>> "'Doxing' is not new. The term dates back to 2001 and the hacker group,
>> Anonymous."
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>> https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/01/doxing_as_an_at.html
>
> I'd be interested in any evidence of the term going back to 2001.
> Anonymous originated in 2003, according to Wikipedia, so the claim
> seems a little fishy.
>
> When we looked into it for "Among the New Words" (AmSp, Fall 2014), we
> only traced "dox(ing)" back to 2010: <http://bit.ly/ATNW89-3>. In the
> Twitter archive, I now see the verb "dox(x)" as early as 9/09.
>
> dox:
> https://twitter.com/Happehwalrus/status/3968919217
> https://twitter.com/Frostieicp/status/3966335243
>
> doxx:
> https://twitter.com/WWPThreads/status/4072534788
>
> The earlier form "drop dox" goes back at least to 2008.
>
> --bgz
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