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Not at all. Just a sneering comment on an anonymous board that proved convincingly that «they» have tied all my behind-seven-proxies identities together and see my real identity as well, and if I know what's good, I'll shut the fuck up. A pretty sobering moment.
Was there a particularly sensitive subject matter that you were then discussing before this happened?
I suppose it was, but much less sensitive a topic than usual; what gave me away was manner.
In any case, I believe (and know, to an extent) the other party was just a highly intelligent individual who's good at online sleuthing, differs politically, and likes to put overconfident folks in their place. Not so much a threat as a warning.
Succesfully finding someones identity requires a lot of luck.
I found the identity of a random on reddit by searching through the instagram followers of a restaurant they claimed to like, then deducting out the people who didnt match the details that did not match that persons profile. I lucked into the instagram, and the fact they didnt lie. This did take a lot of time even using some fairly complicated regex and python scripts to help me.
I also backtrackked a reddit account of a girl I knew in college because the personal details were easy to identify. That was on super easy mode.
On the other hand, ive had much difficulty finding online activity of people I know a whole lot about on a personal basis. Obviously it's harder the other way around.
My guess would be your doxxer was really smart and determined and/or lived in the same city as you. If you live geographically close you are usually 2 degrees of seperation away, and that makes things a lot easier. For example I would have an easier time doxxing you than @DaseindustriesLtd because I assume a lot of his output and identifying information would be in Russian (and you give away a lot of personal information, for eg. 5 minutes into scrolling your reddit I can guess you are a NYU graduate living in London, working in finance, among other details that would narrow the search space a lot)! He must have pissed off a thousand year old vampire.
Full disclousure: I tried to find both of you after reading this conversation (with no intention of finding but assessing the difficulty of doing so, 99.999% chance I wont be able to) and its going to be an order of magnitude or more difficult than a random normie on reddit. I really want to know what tricks your respective doxxers used (Doxxing you wouldn't be hard, maybe 1 weeks/around 20 hours total of work, doxxing Illforte will be quite the task though). Other than meticulous deduction. My go to tools are sherlock and Ghunt but they are bog standard.
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