I'm writing this thread following a recent post that I saw on the forum where a guy was saying that we are now in an age of zero privacy and we have to be very careful with our reputation.
I have never had issue related to getting doxxed online, and at 27 years old I still have little experience, but I am aware that I am a politically incorrect person. In 2022, people get outed in the news regularly for things that in the past were considered the norm, and even if you behave differently now, it doesn't mean that what you did 5, 10, 20 years ago can't come back to haunt you now. This is especially true now that all our conversations with people go through emails and whatsapp, and everybody has a phone to record their surroundings.
So I wanted to make a thread where we share ideas of how to mitigate risks that could hurt our jobs and our reputation :
- How do deal with embarassing messages that you sent in the past that could get back to you if the person knows where you work and could just email it to people in your company?
- Is it better to live an extremely discreet life (zero data about you online, not even a linkedin), if people have too many things about you, or could it make things worse by bringing suspicion from your employer?
Feel free to contribute to this thread. Unfortunately I don't have many things to contribute, but I am very wary of the risks of our lifestyles and wish we can share the best ways to stay on the low. Only thing I know is that there exist dedicated companies to clean your e-reputation if you do get doxxed online, but I think that we would be only touching the tip of the iceberg if we only focus on this - Most of the times people are going to operate more discreetly if they want to destroy you : private email chains, gossiping, making a phone call, etc.
Cheers from Denmark!
I have never had issue related to getting doxxed online, and at 27 years old I still have little experience, but I am aware that I am a politically incorrect person. In 2022, people get outed in the news regularly for things that in the past were considered the norm, and even if you behave differently now, it doesn't mean that what you did 5, 10, 20 years ago can't come back to haunt you now. This is especially true now that all our conversations with people go through emails and whatsapp, and everybody has a phone to record their surroundings.
So I wanted to make a thread where we share ideas of how to mitigate risks that could hurt our jobs and our reputation :
- How do deal with embarassing messages that you sent in the past that could get back to you if the person knows where you work and could just email it to people in your company?
- Is it better to live an extremely discreet life (zero data about you online, not even a linkedin), if people have too many things about you, or could it make things worse by bringing suspicion from your employer?
Feel free to contribute to this thread. Unfortunately I don't have many things to contribute, but I am very wary of the risks of our lifestyles and wish we can share the best ways to stay on the low. Only thing I know is that there exist dedicated companies to clean your e-reputation if you do get doxxed online, but I think that we would be only touching the tip of the iceberg if we only focus on this - Most of the times people are going to operate more discreetly if they want to destroy you : private email chains, gossiping, making a phone call, etc.
Cheers from Denmark!