Article title: Grummz: Odious Pervert, Failed Pornographer
All the information for this story is publicly available, at least it was until Grummz panicked and began trying to purge following a post from friends of the site, Western Kabuki.
Unfortunately for Grummz, the Internet never forgets. You can view the entire timeline here.
Video Title: Goonernomicon: Grummz | Part 1
The first domino in this was from a historical password dump, which lead to an archive search, followed by a trawl through historical WHO.IS data, which is a permanent record on the internet of who runs a website - If you have an email address and phone number listed, this is recorded for what is effectively eternity. This one datapoint allowed us to connect the dots of a particular persons online activity and business dealings.
Since 2001 Grummz has maintained a secret persona called Debbi Chan / Foxyfighter to write, commission, host, and film lesbian wrestling “catfights”
He was the original owner of a fetish forum, freecatfights.com, as well as several other niche fetish femmefight sites; at least two of which were taken down due in 2005 due to anticipated pornography law changes.
He boasted that he used a very expensive RED camera to film pornography in the 2010s, suspiciously the same model used at Red 5 / Studio 5 where he was an executive working on Firefall. Still Images from these sites explicitly outline Mark Kern as the creator/editor of the files being posted to Debbi’s account.
He has caught wind that we have been digging through this and has since been purging/deleting accounts that we’ve already seen and thus know he’s deleting them.
WesternKabuki: Mark Kern led a double life as a pornographer who wrote, produced, commissioned, filmed, and directed fetish porn for over two decades
This is doxxing. The information being publicly available does not change this as he did not have an openly public association between his personal identity and the porno identities. It was a lot harder to conceal personal information from whois searches in 2001 and people were in general more naive about the risks it posed. Registering a domain with one’s name cannot be implied to be consent to have personal information revealed.
Doxxing is a tool that can be either good or bad based on it’s application. Doxxing nazis is good, doxxing activists is bad. I don’t care that this bozo was doxxed but he was doxxed.