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When I doxxed someone
Several years ago, I began to smoke weed with a few friends. On the first night that I ever experienced a significant high, I returned home and spent some time on Twitter, as I occasionally did at the time. I was amused by a discussion that I had had with my friends while we were smoking: it concerned an acquaintance of ours who was well-known and largely disliked within the community because he had a tendency to say and do wildly inappropriate things and attract attention to himself.
Using what I knew about him, I found a great deal of personal information about him, including his full name, usernames, home and work addresses and phone numbers, photos, embarrassing personal details, among other things. I posted this all to Twitter, encouraging people to call and harass him. I then fell asleep.
When I awoke the next day, I had forgotten that any of this happened until I saw his reaction on facebook. He was outraged, and he threatened to call 911 for endangering his life and to sue whomever was responsible. I panicked, believing that what he had said was possible. I was already in poor mental health, and called another friend in a state of extreme distress. I lied to them, saying I feared for my own safety because his privacy had been compromised, when I really feared that I would be arrested and sued. I then went to stay with that person for a short time, because they lived over 100 miles away.
I feigned ignorance when my friends messaged me to ask if I knew who had released the information. The person whose information I had released strongly suspected that it was one of us, but I completely denied all knowledge of what happened and feigned sympathy and concern.
This happened years ago now, but I think that it would seriously damage my relationship with my family, my friends (I am still close with the people to whom I feigned ignorance), and certainly ruin my reputation within the professional community of which I (and the acquaintance) were a part at the time. My behavior was wholly disrespectful, and I considered lying to my friends and making them suspects an act of betrayal.
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