> Just because a data aggregation site does not show your data on the front-end, does not mean they deleted it from the back-end. So now you can charge 50$ for people to search in the "special" data pile
Do you have evidence of aggregators doing this? It's plausible, but I haven't heard about it happening.
> Telling them to remove your data, only slows down the doxxer, it does not stop them at all
I think you have a good point overall but let's not dismiss the solution in the ComputerWorld article, which is valuable. All security solutions do the same thing: They increase the attacker's costs, which stops attackers unwilling to pay the price. There is no perfect security.
For example, we tell users to use strong passwords on their Windows logons, but that only raises the cost of an attack and does not completely secure the machine.
Do you have evidence of aggregators doing this? It's plausible, but I haven't heard about it happening.
> Telling them to remove your data, only slows down the doxxer, it does not stop them at all
I think you have a good point overall but let's not dismiss the solution in the ComputerWorld article, which is valuable. All security solutions do the same thing: They increase the attacker's costs, which stops attackers unwilling to pay the price. There is no perfect security.
For example, we tell users to use strong passwords on their Windows logons, but that only raises the cost of an attack and does not completely secure the machine.