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> It feels a very, very small step away from doxxing to me.

What small step is that? Looks like a textbook case of doxxing to me.



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> Researching and publicly broadcasting private or identifying information (especially personally identifying information) about an individual or organization.

Yeah this is definitionally doxxing


This isn't his first time doing it, either.

https://itwire.com/security/infosec-researchers-slam-ex-wapo...


Some people claim that the coinhive story had some unnecessary doxxing aswell:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/03/annual-protest-to-fight-... (see comments)

The users of said image board do a yearly fundraiser to protest against the unnecessary doxxing. The first one was started by a random user.


I was personally unaware of these stories, and am slightly disgusted by the fact that I used to think Krebs was a fairly stand-up guy.

Doxxing someone because of a bad book review? I guess I shouldn't be surprised he's now doxxing someone based on a loose thread with no evidence.

I would have thought someone who has been swatted before would realize the dangers of releasing someones personal address to outrage-hungry vigilantes.


He also doxxed a guy who registered a bunch of domains defensively. He didn't even really apologize, just updated the story a few days later. [1] I called it out here prior to the update. [2]

1. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/04/whos-behind-the-reopen-d...

2. https://twitter.com/cyberingcc/status/1252460981546090496


That is just embarrassingly petty - I've just lost a little more respect for the guy.

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