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this post was submitted on 29 Nov 2025
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Two separate concepts.
Doxxing is exposing someone's personal, potentially private, information publicly online.
DoS (denial of service) or DDoS (distributed denial of service) are methods of taking down websites. Generally they involve sending so many requests that the servers get overwhelmed.