Duffles, a dox is when you get somebody to track down a person over the internet and get their tue identity. It has worked before in the case of btc-arbs, another ponzi where the owner was caught so he had to pay back all the btc.
So it's a digital Dog The Bounty Hunter

... legality?
When I produced code for him to automate the countdown clock, he said that his timezone was AEST - Australian Eastern. So it'd have to be someone who can operate with Australian ISPs, etc. Does the forum team release IP addresses in these cases then?