Sperm as I'm sure you are aware is unsolicited messages most often coming in e-mail like the one you
can see here trying to get you to buy pharmaceuticals or some other nonsense.
But they also comb through instant messages forums social media even text messages.
Now blogs wikis and pretty much anywhere else they can think of you know to spam you mostly is to advertise
some sort of product.
You would think that spamming wouldn't work but the barrier to entry to become a spammer is low.
So spamming remains economically viable because spammers have very small operating costs and it is difficult
to hold senders accountable for their mass mailings.
It's relatively easy to hide where the emails are coming from.
If you send millions upon millions of e-mails you know for very small small percentage take the bay
the e-mail protocols we use today and always use were designed in a time of trust.
So there is little defense built into those protocols to defend against spam.
And that's something we're going to cover a lot more in the section on e-mail security with spam if
or any e-mails if you didn't request it then you should be suspicious of it.
Doxing something completely different to spamming docs is an abbreviation of document doxing is to do
research on an individual or it can be an organization or company to find personal and private information
often in order to cause embarrassment discredit extort coerce harass.
You know just generally cause problems for the victim by publicly releasing the information or the threat
to publicly release it.
If someone is said to be dogs it means that information about them has been made public or has been
broadcast in some way and can be achieved by simply searching on the Internet and looking at public
records.
There's often lots of information about people out there that they don't realize you know you can search
through social media sites and forums which is one reason why you should keep anything private.
Private people are quite surprised at the amount of information that is actually out there on them.
It can also be done through contacting your phone company through IP address lock ups.
They know where you are.
You or your general location looking at browser history domain name who is information basically.
Whatever method the doctor can use based on their level of skill it can involve social engineering and
tricking people to give away information that they otherwise wouldn't.
It can also escalate to hacking the victim's computer and accounts.
Examples include anonymous releasing the identities of members of the Klu Klux Klan and Donald Trump
reading out the phone number of Senator Lindsey Graham.
The ethics of doxing is obviously considered questionable.