Do you have a human story about why sharing stories is self-doxxing? I imagine most stories can be told in a way that doesn’t doxx, especially if you change some details that are irrelevant to the crux.
Some stories aren’t. That being said, many stories are. I would give examples from my own experience on this site, but they are, uh, self-doxing.
especially if you change some details that are irrelevant to the crux.
Most of the issues arise either a) when the crucial details are themselves the details that you have to hide (“How can you be an expert on X given that there’s about a half-dozen people that know X?” is a classic, for instance.), or b) the story in isolation doesn’t leak enough bits of information to self-dox, but when combined with other already-told (and hence irrevocable) stories is enough.
(Remember, you only need ~33 bits of information to uniquely identify an individual[1]. That’s tiny.)
An issue with sharing human stories is the juxtaposition between:
Many people are/must be anonymous online.
Sharing human stories is often self-doxing.
Do you have a human story about why sharing stories is self-doxxing? I imagine most stories can be told in a way that doesn’t doxx, especially if you change some details that are irrelevant to the crux.
Some stories aren’t. That being said, many stories are. I would give examples from my own experience on this site, but they are, uh, self-doxing.
Most of the issues arise either a) when the crucial details are themselves the details that you have to hide (“How can you be an expert on X given that there’s about a half-dozen people that know X?” is a classic, for instance.), or b) the story in isolation doesn’t leak enough bits of information to self-dox, but when combined with other already-told (and hence irrevocable) stories is enough.
(Remember, you only need ~33 bits of information to uniquely identify an individual[1]. That’s tiny.)
Although of course this can be more difficult in practice.