On 30/12/2018, Daniel Seagraves via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > >> On Dec 30, 2018, at 12:37 AM, Rod Smallwood via cctalk >> <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: >> >> What is dox? > > New-era-internet term for illegally gaining access to someone's real world > “documents" (place of employment, home address, phone numbers, medical > records, family members’ info, etc) for harassment, stalking, or worse. >
Interesting, as the OED describes dox (n.) as an abbreviation for doxy (2.), which is an abbrevations for orthodoxy. First reference to 1756: T. Amory J. Buncle (1825) III. 19 Orthodox and other dox. N
