Hello all, it's been mabey years since I last made a thread here, but a recent story really got to me and that is the "boxxy story". Most of you probably have no clue what I'm talking about as it seemed to have happened in 2008 and ended back in 2009, I only found out about it mabey a couple months ago.
To sum it up, its about a teenage girl who posted a couple video's of herself online for some friends she met playing Gaia Online, the vid's drew large interest mainly due to the nature of her personality and appearance. Didn't take long before 4chan got a hold of this and ruined her life through a huge internet investigation conducted by a rouge group which was created through 4chan but separate from it, in the hopes of finding boxxy's true identity. They succeeded in a way as they managed to leak her email, address, phone #, full name, pictures and older youtube accounts of herself to the web.
It's really brilliant and quite disturbing at what 11 strangers with a lot of time can do, they managed to find her old youtube account containing vids of a younger boxxy which led to finding her myspace account which led to finding out where she lived, her age and name which led to finding more myspace accounts which led to finding her email which led to hacking her youtube account and delivering a threat via a video on her own account to never post videos again. Mind you all her myspace accounts were wiped clean and changed up, but thanks to a google cache, they managed to find the original pages.
Many people seem to post their phone #'s, where they work, home adresses, ect for all to see on facebook and myspace, ect. Boxxy did not of that and still got caught, just think what the internet could do to each and every one of us if they decide to hunt you down, yea... no matter how private you are, even 1 shred of leaked info can lead to tracking you down.
I'm just curious on whats your take on internet privacy, should people be more cautious on the internet? As the world is becoming more dependent on the internet, it seems we seem to be getting more comfortable as well. I mean the only difference between this girl and us is that she put her face out there, while we dont, but lets say someday we do? Lets say we make some enemies in our future on the web, so many things can happen in life and you may forget about that account you made 2 or 10 or even 20 years ago.
I'm a pretty private guy, but I'm about to get more private, I've taken numerous steps to increase my privacy by making my social networking accounts locked for friends only, deleted addresses or locations I may have posted, heck I even cleared my fansub profile.
Remember, all it takes is 1 forum or 1 chat log or 1 online game, and your info could be exploited without you even knowing it.
If you want to find out more about boxxy and her rise and downfall, google "the boxxy story". Although I may just be contributing to her downfall eh...
To sum it up, its about a teenage girl who posted a couple video's of herself online for some friends she met playing Gaia Online, the vid's drew large interest mainly due to the nature of her personality and appearance. Didn't take long before 4chan got a hold of this and ruined her life through a huge internet investigation conducted by a rouge group which was created through 4chan but separate from it, in the hopes of finding boxxy's true identity. They succeeded in a way as they managed to leak her email, address, phone #, full name, pictures and older youtube accounts of herself to the web.
It's really brilliant and quite disturbing at what 11 strangers with a lot of time can do, they managed to find her old youtube account containing vids of a younger boxxy which led to finding her myspace account which led to finding out where she lived, her age and name which led to finding more myspace accounts which led to finding her email which led to hacking her youtube account and delivering a threat via a video on her own account to never post videos again. Mind you all her myspace accounts were wiped clean and changed up, but thanks to a google cache, they managed to find the original pages.
Many people seem to post their phone #'s, where they work, home adresses, ect for all to see on facebook and myspace, ect. Boxxy did not of that and still got caught, just think what the internet could do to each and every one of us if they decide to hunt you down, yea... no matter how private you are, even 1 shred of leaked info can lead to tracking you down.
I'm just curious on whats your take on internet privacy, should people be more cautious on the internet? As the world is becoming more dependent on the internet, it seems we seem to be getting more comfortable as well. I mean the only difference between this girl and us is that she put her face out there, while we dont, but lets say someday we do? Lets say we make some enemies in our future on the web, so many things can happen in life and you may forget about that account you made 2 or 10 or even 20 years ago.
I'm a pretty private guy, but I'm about to get more private, I've taken numerous steps to increase my privacy by making my social networking accounts locked for friends only, deleted addresses or locations I may have posted, heck I even cleared my fansub profile.
Remember, all it takes is 1 forum or 1 chat log or 1 online game, and your info could be exploited without you even knowing it.
If you want to find out more about boxxy and her rise and downfall, google "the boxxy story". Although I may just be contributing to her downfall eh...