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r000t.com no longer hosts a Doxbin mirror


Why?

In short, Doxbin abused my trust. Without my knowledge, an article was posted on Doxbin about sombody I am currently forbidden by a court order to talk to or post anything about anywhere, including online. The automated mirror software faithfully fetched and hosted it here, and yet nobody bothered to tell me so that I could have removed it. I won't speculate as to whether or not that was intentional on their part, as it's non sequitor now; that article, and indeed the entirety of the mirror, are gone, and neither will ever return to this site.

Additionally, on 11 November 2012, it was brought to my attention that Doxbin staffers were essentially using the existience of this mirror as a method to attempt to avoid being held liable for the information posted on Doxbin. In ley terms, they were using me as a scapegoat. I don't appreciate such acts of what can only be described as "weaselry". I want nothing to do with Doxbin staffers having their hands out for praise and credit regarding their site, but simultaneously "passing the buck" whenever somebody threatens to call the police. Sure, I could have added more disclaimers, but at the end of the day, people like that don't deserve my support, and there are much more worthy causes that could use the bandwidth.

Finally, Doxbin has changed significantly from what it was when I started hosting a mirror. I no longer agree with their ethics, and ultimately this mirror was strictly voluntary on my part. I'm not obligated to anybody to deliver Doxbin to anybody, and so it has been purged from my servers entirely. Free speech is not just about being able to say whatever you want, it's also about being able to choose to not say things you don't agree with. I refuse to be bullied into being a patsy for a bunch of twerps who are, in all honesty, too pussy to host their garbage in the clearnet themselves, on servers they pay for, on domains attached to their real life identities.


So why host it in the first place?


When Doxbin was started by a very close friend of mine, the sole and exclusive purpose behind it was to serve as a place for the names, addresses, and phone numbers, and very little else to be posted about people who deserved it. Who deserved it? In short, script kiddies and "Anonymous Legionaires"; people who have used their anonymity as an excuse for being total fuckwads. The general idea at work was that, when presented with their "dox", they would suddenly realize the gravity of the stunts they had pulled, and how it could possibly affect them in their real lives. Up until Doxbin's creation, this "public service" was fufilled by the original Pastebin. However, Pastebin is strictly for pasting code, and as such, pastes that contain people's personal information, no matter how much they deserved it, would of couse be deleted upon an abuse report being submitted.

Doxbin started, and remains to be, a Tor Hidden Service. This means that one requires a special program called Tor, and a properly configured browser, in order to access it. This greatly affected Doxbin's reach and audience, so I offered to host a mirror in the "clearnet", or the normal Internet that doesn't require any specialized tools to access. Again, this was back when only simple, already public information was posted, and only about people that legitimately had it coming.

The aforementioned very good friend no longer has control over Doxbin, he essentially gave it away to work on much more deserving pursuits. Over time, Doxbin has very much changed. Information is posted about people who haven't done a single thing to deserve such exposure, and more intrusive and incredibly private information is being posted: Social Security numbers (or international equivalents), bank account details, credit card numbers, etc. For this and many other reasons, I am voluntarily taking my mirror down, permanently.


Where can I view Doxbin now?

That's not really my problem, now is it? When I checked a few weeks ago, there were one or two other clearnet mirrors, but those appear to be gone now. Hm, I wonder why? At any rate, Doxbin will always be available at it's original Onion address. It will always be available for those who really want to view it. As of this writing, there are no clearnet Doxbin mirrors.


Did you think closing your mirror would kill Doxbin?

Absolutely not. Doxbin will always be available on the Tor Onion network. However, the last clearnet mirror shutting down (though I am sure more will eventually pop up, but I won't be responsible for any of them) means a few things. First, Google doesn't crawl .onion sites. Originally, running a Google search for someone who happens to have a Doxbin article would turn up their article, on my clearnet mirror. This is, obviously, no longer the case. For those lingering results, they only lead to this page. Since this page obviously does not contain the search terms anybody is looking for, those results will disappear with time.

At any rate, the only copies of Doxbin, including the original, are essentially behind "technological barriers", meaning that somebody needs to "know what they are doing" in order to access it. Without a clearnet mirror, the public at large no longer has a quick and easy way to access Doxbin.


LOL U MAD/BUTTHURT/BUTTFLUSTERED/ASSPAINED

Believe what you want. The reality is that I have a future to work for. I'm not willing to throw my entire life away so that some random wannabe hackers can have a few laughs at the public's expense. I want nothing to do with such an operation. If that's your definition of "butthurt", you might want to look up the definition again. I'm not mad, I'm not upset. I'm simply removing myself from the situation before shit hits the fan, and that's my prerogative.


Anybody with questions, comments, concerns, or idle death threats regarding my removal of this mirror is of course free to leave me a note via email: [email protected]