Docs
From Encyclopedia Dramatica
Docs are information an Internet personality would like kept secret, such as their current real name, address, SSN and phone number (things they would install a security system, a phone tracing system and buy a dog to protect). Docs may also include information on close relatives. After notorious hacker/phreak scenester Bobink widely distributed his impeccably complete flat-file docs database named pokemon.txt, it became a long-standing scene tradition to call your collection of docs Pokemon (Gotta catch 'em all!) and the file that they are collected in a Pokéball. Many people do things on the Internet which they would rather not leak into their IRL circle of acquaintances (such as their sexual practices and fantasies) so dropping dox can be very destructive to victims' personal lives.
How to obtain dox
Obtaining dox is a subtle art known only by intelligent internet users. Generally if you have a IRL name or screen name of the person, first google said person's name. It's pretty surprising how retarded people are on the internet. For anyone with any appreciable internet presence, it often isn't hard to find their personal lives splayed across Myspace, internet fora, Amazon, &c. Dumb shits generally use the same screen name on all of the services they're signed up for, so this part is pretty easy. Once you have some information such as street address, first and last name, and so forth, you can lurk through voter registration records, criminal records, and so forth, getting names of relatives somewhere along the way. Also, don't forget to search the white pages,[1] since if they are listed, your job is a lot easier.
If looking up a screen name yields nothing, try to get an IP address. Anonymous users on wikis will have their IP addresses displayed, and usually you can extract an IP address from an email.[2] A simple WHOIS search will give the ISP and general location of the user.
Example
Often the subject of a particular article is stupid enough to put down all his personal details, forgetting that information on the internet is public, meaning it can be viewed by anyone. The most famous example of this was a furfag named August Yifu, although the same goes for the vast majority of furries.
