Thread by @0x49fa98

One or /ourguys/, a tiny account, got doxed. It was obviously someone he knew who did it, and in response, he an heroed. So let’s quickly talk about opsec

Every single person who knows your secret is a liability, because they increase the surface area of attack

This means you don’t tell anyone, ever, unless you would trust them to take your side in a life-and-death type situation. Because although that’s a bit dramatic, it really does approximate the stakes

If you must have real name accounts as well as anon alts, never cross post content. Don’t say things with similar wording or express the same idea on both accounts around the same time

Never post pictures of your pets, your yard, your environment, or anything that your friends could pattern match to you do. Never post food pics that you also post to your real accounts. This is basic but many don’t think

You ever see death note? Basically you are Light and the world is full of Ls.

Any bit of information you leak could potentially be used by someone to narrow the range of your possible identities

Most of the time, we suspect a dox is not put together by a team of 4chan autists, however. Most of the time, it’s someone close to you who wants to destroy you for personal reasons. Even if you trust someone, they may not feel the gravity of your secret the way you do

In fact they certainly won’t, which is why the only real way to keep secrets is not to share them. The best encryption software in the world shares a common failure mode with rot13: the idiot using it

So always be maximally paranoid if you want to speak honestly in dissident spaces. And if it ever does happen, don’t an hero.

If someone doxes you, you are now playing Minecraft together, you feel me?