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He's doxxing people again that he guesses are responsible, just like the last article. It leaves a very bitter taste. He's not law enforcement. He should be han
by cflewis 6y ago
He's doxxing people again that he guesses are responsible, just like the last article. It leaves a very bitter taste. He's not law enforcement. He should be handing these personal details to the FBI for investigation, not putting them on a souped-up-blog.
- kspacewalk2 6y agoO'Connor (the doxxed guy from the previous article) did admit to paying for a hacked Twitter account, and it was never claimed he is responsible for the hack.
- draugadrotten 6y agoAdmission of a crime should not be taken as truth. 134 people have admitted to being the person who shot the prime minister of Sweden, Olof Palme.
- the-dude 6y agoHe was doxxed, not beheaded. It is a blog, not a courthouse.
- mellow2020 6y agoDoxxing is fine because it's not murder? You don't even have the beginnings of a point.
- the-dude 6y agoI think it is fine somebody is reporting on someone who admits to doing something shady. On a blog.
- mellow2020 6y agoYou already called it doxxing, don't shift goalposts.
- kspacewalk2 6y agoDoxxing people engaged in clearly criminal activity is fine.
- joedevon 6y ago134 people shot the Prime Minister of Sweden??!!! j/k Good point Draug!
- forgotmypwbctbi 6y agoi agree with you. it also leaves bad taste in my mouth. he is taking on a lot of responsibility and seems unaware.
- whatdewyewexp 6y agoBecause he is unaware. Krebs is a clown
- whatdewyewexp 6y agoWhat do you expect frOm this Guy? he's the go to for security info for people that don't understand computer security. He's good at using search engines and filling obvious breadcrumbs to sites that perpetuate fraud and basic hacks. he's the defacto standard for everyone that needs this kind of research put into layman's terms and that standard comes with a low bar.
- Eiriksmal 6y agoI've stopped clicking on any Krebs links after reading the comments about his doxxing behavior last week. The thread is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23865035 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23865035 The main article about it is here: https://itwire.com/security/infosec-researchers-slam-ex-wapo-man-krebs-over-doxxing.html https://itwire.com/security/infosec-researchers-slam-ex-wapo... This brand of... journalism surely sees itself as one that keeps the world safe, cflewis. Without brave vigilante journalists, who would give other vigilantes the information needed to SWAT your house or mail you illegal substances?
- Nasrudith 6y agoAll I see is pulling on the threads and crucially no judgement in the process in a transparent passionless matter. The email tracing could have lead to some shmuck with a compromised or long inactive account co-opted after another breach and he followed up on it instead of simply assuming guilt. The damn FBI could learn tricks from him on proper investigation without assumptions appears to be the goal more than trying to find what they want (incrimination of some sort).
- chmod775 6y agoHere's a more recent article too: https://www.itwire.com/security/new-york-times-says-krebs-wrongly-implicated-briton-in-twitter-hack.html https://www.itwire.com/security/new-york-times-says-krebs-wr...
- verroq 6y agoKrebs is much more responsible than a reddit mob. He is reporting on facts, it’s not a lynching. It is his right to speculate on who did what on his own blog, especially when presented with evidence and other interesting details.
- chmod775 6y agoBrian Krebs likes to dox everyone: from security researchers, people giving him bad book reviews, to website administrators. Doesn't even matter if you're they're the allegedly "bad guy" of the story he's publishing or not. He does it because he can. Must be one of the few very ways he can feel powerful, messing with people like that. At this point I can only assume he causes havoc and screws with people's lives because he enjoys it. You can't work in that field, doing this to people over and over, and not grasp how incredibly dangerous this can be. Especially since he himself claims to be getting death threats and people sending him drugs in the mail. Or maybe it's pathological and beyond his comprehension. In which case I wish him all the best and hope he gets professional help soon. A course on ethics in journalism also only ought to do him well.