Reporters Without Borders (RSF) designed this series of exercises aimed at preventing doxxing, which consists of exposing someone’s private information for harassment purposes. The first exercise aims to make journalists aware of the range of personal information a doxxer might find. What is doxxing? It’s a form of online harassment […]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) designed this series of exercises aimed at preventing doxxing, which consists of exposing someone’s private information for harassment purposes. This last article lists some remedies journalists can implement to better protect themselves. Thanks to previous three exercises in the series, journalists can realise the amount of […]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) designed this series of exercises aimed at preventing doxxing, which consists of exposing someone’s private information for harassment purposes. The third exercise aims to range sensitive information on social media.  Social media platforms have existed for more than 20 years. At their start, users were not […]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) designed this series of exercises aimed at preventing doxxing, which consists of exposing someone’s private information for harassment purposes. The second exercise aims to identify locations of one’s sensitive information through advanced search engine techniques. A doxxer would begin their search with publicly known information, especially […]

Doxxing, which consists of publishing a target’s private information online without their consent, is a technique regularly used against journalists. In this last article of a three-part series on cyberharassment, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) offers preventive measures against this type of attacks. Doxxing is a form of online harassment in […]