As for the doxxing, it only grew out of wanting to know people better.

"The best word I can use to describe it is creepy," he said about the practice known as doxxing.

Doxxing: When a person is doxxed, they are stripped of their anonymity.

Increased accessibility means advertising the availability of information without actually distributing it, as in the case of doxxing.

He was brilliant at doxxing.

Soon, however, trolling and doxxing became a form of self-medication, a "way to ease some of my bad feelings".

Following some controversial incidents of Internet vigilantism, Reddit introduced a strict rule against the publication of non-public personally-identifying information via the site (colloquially known as doxxing).

It was such a doxxing which led to the arrest in June last year of Ryan Cleary, an alleged LulzSec member operating from a bedroom in Essex.

Some websites, such as Reddit, have rules forbidding the posting of personal information of individuals (also known as doxxing), due to concerns about such postings leading to mobs of large numbers of Internet users directing harassment at the specific individuals thereby identified.

OAPI argues that ICANN's proposals will make it easier for abusers to physically endanger domain name registrants through doxxing and SWATing, and that those marginalized for their race, gender, or sexual orientation are disproportionately at risk.

Sensitive information including social security numbers, credit card records and mortgage amounts were released on Monday in a so-called "doxxing" attack on a series of celebrities and political figures, including Donald Trump, Mel Gibson, the US Vice-President, Joe Biden, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.