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How a friend was doxed

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I was on a friend's blog site today, commenting on on his blog entry and he asked me in the comments how some folks got a great deal of his personal identifiable information (PII in the trade).
He is an epidemiologist and takes on antivaccination folks, discrediting their nonsensical memes.
Needless to say, that generates enemies, another epidemiologist has actually had people call his boss to try to get him fired, walked up to his office building entrance, to be escorted away by security and received many a death threat.

Less than five seconds of sleuthing revealed how his name, telephone number, address, e-mail address were all revealed.
When he had registered his domain, he had not ensured that it was anonymized, the end result was a simple "whois" revealed all of the information.
Later, a screen capture of the doxing on facebook confirmed it, as whois has standard entries.
Below, I'll explain a bit about the process and basic pointers to avoid having anyone with a Linux system or running Cygwin on Windows to run Unix utilities use the whois command to learn more than you want anyone to know.


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