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Its interesting but also worrying. This is pretty much doxxing under the guise of intellectual curiosity. If the article explained why they wanted to identify
by mothsonasloth 8y ago
Its interesting but also worrying. This is pretty much doxxing under the guise of intellectual curiosity.
If the article explained why they wanted to identify this account then fair enough. However you are going to end up in an ethical slippery slope were it will be used to doxx people who are controversial, troll, political dissidents and whistle blowers.
- nightfly 8y agoNone of the techniques they used to come to their conclusion were groundbreaking or even surprising.
- mothsonasloth 8y agoTo you or me but for others its an education on how they can be compromised or how they can compromise others.
- lolc 8y agoI don't see the problem. We didn't need this demonstration to know that people can be unmasked with these methods. They had consent from the "doxxed" person and explicitly addressed the ethical issues. What more do you want? It's not like we can take away these dangers by not talking about them openly.