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Doxing the person who stopped WannaCry was irresponsible and dumb

45 points by smb06 9y ago

y7 9y ago
Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14340905 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14340905
DanBC 9y ago
He talks about the effects of being doxxed by British media here: https://twitter.com/MalwareTechBlog/status/865937835643285506 https://twitter.com/MalwareTechBlog/status/86593783564328550...
doktrin 9y ago
I wonder how they doxed him in the first place. MT clearly knows what he's doing, and probably had a reasonably anonymous online footprint.
- Daviey 9y ago
  Sounded like there was a photo of him with a real-life friend, and the press went through his twitter friends and found that person. That person was less careful, and then hounded that person in real life... until they found the person they really wanted.
blitmap 9y ago
Here's to hoping he takes them to court in a way where he can prove damages.
- OJFord 9y ago
  Well, he's not American, so don't count on it.
Fiahil 9y ago
It's 2017, dont't expect tabloid "journalists" to have integrity. Gotta drive thoses clicks.
- baby 9y ago
  For more than a decade I've refused to read the newspaper or their web equivalent and haven't watched an once of TV news. I usually just get wind of the big lines via reddit or hackernews, and almost never read the article but read the comments instead. I honestly do not know if this is a good way to get my news, but at least I'm not getting depressed daily, or being lied to by one journalist. I only get the important information, and I get to see different educated and community-sorted points of view on the subject.
  - 0xcoffee 9y ago
    I do this a lot too, but I noticed that often comments (on reddit especially) get it wrong a lot of the time too. I used to go straight to the comments, and there would always be some highly up-voted post countering the article, by someone claiming to work/have knowledge of the field, and I would usually believe that more then the article. However then when a topic comes round which I do have actual knowledge on, I notice that often the article gets it wrong, and the counter-comments get it equally wrong. Nowadays I try to make myself read the article before going to the comments, and take the counter-points also with a huge grain of salt. I only have opinions in topics I directly work in, the rest of the world is too complicated.
    - baby 9y ago
      > I only have opinions in topics I directly work in, the rest of the world is too complicated. And there as well, knowledgeable people don't always agree on things :)
- OJFord 9y ago
  > dont't expect tabloid "journalists" to have integrity The Telegraph isn't a tabloid. Also, while it was a shitty article, I wouldn't go so far as to call it one of the "festering sphincters of bad journalism" as submission author does...
dbrgn 9y ago
Maybe someone should dig up personal information about these journalists...

45 points by smb06 9y ago

y7 9y ago

Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14340905 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14340905

He talks about the effects of being doxxed by British media here: https://twitter.com/MalwareTechBlog/status/865937835643285506 https://twitter.com/MalwareTechBlog/status/86593783564328550...

doktrin 9y ago

I wonder how they doxed him in the first place. MT clearly knows what he's doing, and probably had a reasonably anonymous online footprint.

Daviey 9y ago
Sounded like there was a photo of him with a real-life friend, and the press went through his twitter friends and found that person. That person was less careful, and then hounded that person in real life... until they found the person they really wanted.

blitmap 9y ago

Here's to hoping he takes them to court in a way where he can prove damages.

OJFord 9y ago
Well, he's not American, so don't count on it.

Fiahil 9y ago

It's 2017, dont't expect tabloid "journalists" to have integrity. Gotta drive thoses clicks.

baby 9y ago
For more than a decade I've refused to read the newspaper or their web equivalent and haven't watched an once of TV news. I usually just get wind of the big lines via reddit or hackernews, and almost never read the article but read the comments instead. I honestly do not know if this is a good way to get my news, but at least I'm not getting depressed daily, or being lied to by one journalist. I only get the important information, and I get to see different educated and community-sorted points of view on the subject.
- 0xcoffee 9y ago
  I do this a lot too, but I noticed that often comments (on reddit especially) get it wrong a lot of the time too. I used to go straight to the comments, and there would always be some highly up-voted post countering the article, by someone claiming to work/have knowledge of the field, and I would usually believe that more then the article. However then when a topic comes round which I do have actual knowledge on, I notice that often the article gets it wrong, and the counter-comments get it equally wrong. Nowadays I try to make myself read the article before going to the comments, and take the counter-points also with a huge grain of salt. I only have opinions in topics I directly work in, the rest of the world is too complicated.
  - baby 9y ago
    > I only have opinions in topics I directly work in, the rest of the world is too complicated. And there as well, knowledgeable people don't always agree on things :)
OJFord 9y ago
> dont't expect tabloid "journalists" to have integrity The Telegraph isn't a tabloid. Also, while it was a shitty article, I wouldn't go so far as to call it one of the "festering sphincters of bad journalism" as submission author does...

dbrgn 9y ago

Maybe someone should dig up personal information about these journalists...